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  “Taking Colbert Seriously: Faux News Man Issues Faux Apology for Real News

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  Megan Boler University of Toronto

  May 10, 2007

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  “Taking Colbert Seriously: Faux News Man Issues Faux Apology for Real News The Daily Show The Colbert Report Stephen Colbert satire politics parody fake news cynicism counterpublics Comedy Central citizenship Curator's Note This April 26 segment of T ...
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  The West (Coast) Wing: How Studio 60 Moved Off the Sunset Strip

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  Alisa Perren University of Texas at Austin

  August 10, 2007

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  its run, this heavily marketed critical darling could barely be found on NBC’s schedule. (With minimal ...
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  After Macaca: Virginia’s Next Youtube Moment

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  Tasha Oren University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

  October 31, 2007

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  After Macaca: Virginia’s Next Youtube Moment Youtube race immigration politics elections scandal Liberty 9500 Virginia Curator's Note Forget Iraq. For those surprised by the effectiveness and overwhelming dominance of the gay marriage issue in motiva ...
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  Skins: Immigration and the arrival and departure of Thomas

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  Jeanette Monaco University of the West of England

  May 21, 2010

  a running trainer who secures him a full Harvard scholarship. Season 3’s attack on the inadequacy of the UK ...
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  'Restoring Honor,' Appropriating Images: The Conservative Movement’s Co-optation of Shepard Fairey’s Obama Portrait

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  Joel Penney Montclair State University

  November 04, 2010

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  'Restoring Honor,' Appropriating Images: The Conservative Movement’s Co-optation of Shepard Fairey’s Obama Portrait visual communication politics marketing strategies consumer culture campaigns Curator's Note In the 2008 U.S. presidential e ...
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  President Bartlet's Bully Pulpit

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  Richard Newton Claremont Graduate University

  June 28, 2011

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  a contemporaneous episode of Sorkin's Sports Night, " A lot of folks [were] running in that ...
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  The Price of Politics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  December 09, 2013

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  invested in the reductive pandering to the present, could learn something from these images, these ...
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  Too Busy (Stuck in Traffic) To Hate: Atlanta, Sports, and Urban Space

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  Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University

  February 18, 2014

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  Too Busy (Stuck in Traffic) To Hate: Atlanta, Sports, and Urban Space sports politics MSNBC Chris Hayes atlanta braves Curator's Note In November 2013, the Braves announced that they would be moving out of Turner Field, where they have played for jus ...
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  Southern Reconstruction: On Killer Mike’s ‘Reagan’

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  Charles P. Linscott Ohio University

  September 03, 2014

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  anachronistic, yet Mike posits the former president as an ideology instead of a scrutable human being. We learn ...
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  The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government

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  D. Elisabeth Glassco Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  June 01, 2016

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  The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government 2016 Election democracy incivility politics Trump Curator's Note By now we have all seen the pictures and watched the video of clashes between supporters of Bernie ...

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