Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently, plus a programming note.
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The second season shapes up to reconnect the city with the world around it: New Orleaneans are confronted with outsider views of the city as becomes clear in Delmond's argument about New Orleans music with fellow jazz lovers and Janette's conversation with her fellow cooks after reading Alan Richman's devastating review.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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David Simon's Treme returns this Sunday for its second season. Antenna will be following all of the action with a weekly column on the program to be published each Wednesday.
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Tags: gender, HBO, race/ethnicity, television, Treme
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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On April 1, 2011, several websites joked around with media history.
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Tags: digital media, DVD, film, Google, Hulu, internet, television, TV, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Blockbuster, box office, broadband, digital distribution, DVD, film criticism, Hollywood, Hulu, internet, iTunes, Netflix, print media, publishing, social gaming, Sony, streaming, television, video games
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, BAFTA, Blockbuster, copyright, digital distribution, DVD, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iPad, Microsoft, MPAA, music, Netflix, piracy, porn, television, Twitter, video games
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Does Pretty Little Liars hold the key to millennial narrative construction?
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Tags: ABC Family, Millennials, narrative, Pretty Little Liars, teen television, television, TV
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Trying to watch itself, Egyptian state TV has lost its collective mind. They have slid into a self-comforting psychosis. They don’t reject reality as much as they simply create a whole new one.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, Egypt, Egyptian state television, Mubarak, reality, television
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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25 years ago today, one of the most significant tragedy-induced media events of the twentieth century took place: the Challenger Disaster.
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