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Re: NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

Qualified optimism

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Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Sunday, September 25, 2011 — 5:30 pm

the past week, I'm feeling cautious optimism about the possible return of the sitcom. Not that ... possible disappearance of cable-specific program genres. That wasn't to say that cable can't ...

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One Man Army: Ultimate Warfighters and Interchangeable Tough Guys

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Charity Fox University of Baltimore

September 28, 2011

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universe (I’m looking at you, Real Housewives) – there is a tone of respectful collegiality infusing the ...

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The Great American Dream Machine

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Laurie Ouellette University of Minnesota

October 03, 2011

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evidences the unrealized possibilities (and inherent tensions) of public television in the U.S. ...

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Re: The Great American Dream Machine

I had the exact same reaction

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Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

Monday, October 3, 2011 — 5:16 pm

unrealized possibilities of public TV. The commemorative broadcast of The Great American Dream Machine is ...

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Blacking Out "Black Journal": Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Public Broadcasting

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Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

October 04, 2011

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Blacking Out "Black Journal": Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Public Broadcasting Public Broadcasting politics Black Journal, Curator's Note Black Journal first aired on public television in 1968. Initially funded by National Educat ...

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Re: Blacking Out "Black Journal": Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Public Broadcasting

Workable Advocacy

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Josh Shepperd Catholic University

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 — 2:45 am

couldn't do it alone. So I wonder-- now that current populist movements have sided with privatization of ...

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"Where's the Human Voice?" It's on Public Radio

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Jim Burress WABE-FM

October 06, 2011

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"Where's the Human Voice?" It's on Public Radio Studs Terkel StoryCorps public radio NPR Curator's Note Historian, author and radio icon Studs Terkel kicked off the public radio project StoryCorps in 2003 by asking, “Where’s the ...

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Re: "Where's the Human Voice?" It's on Public Radio

Radio--the Most Visual Medium

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Patrick Cox Rutgers, Department of Childhood Studies

Thursday, October 6, 2011 — 7:37 pm

the human voice, and the power of spoken language--words, description, but also tone, emotion. I’m ... isn’t it possible this diminishes the unique importance of the human voice? Not to sound curmudgeonly, ...

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Global National Public Television and Canada’s "Little Mosque on the Prairie"

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Kyle Conway University of North Dakota

October 07, 2011

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Global National Public Television and Canada’s "Little Mosque on the Prairie" Curator's Note I spent this summer interviewing the creators of the program Little Mosque on the Prairie, which has aired on the English television network of the ...

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