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  The Increasing Instant Nostalgia in Mediated Sports

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  Ryan Lizardi SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  August 29, 2012

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  nostalgia is also prevalent during every major championship game. Moments, literally, after a team wins, the ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  yeah

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 5:21 am

  that it was within Eminem's abilities to win it for Kerry: even when at its very, very best, the ...
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  Re: From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

  Elections

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 11:31 pm

  scenario –Leslie winning the elections– in the next season. It could be a good oportunity to look at how ...
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  HBO's Veep, Postfeminism, and Political Humor

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  August 23, 2012

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  women hold only 17% of U.S. Congressional seats, and woman has yet to win the White House, perhaps ...
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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits Politics as Entertainment politics Occupy news media criticism journalism Jon Stewart Daily Show Curator's Note Going beyond humor, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart creates a cl ...
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  Re: From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

  I agree with this. What made

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  Carrie Griffin Independent

  Monday, August 20, 2012 — 11:11 pm

  stands now, I had a hard time envisioning how the show would handle anything other than Leslie winning. ...
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  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  August 20, 2012

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  From Bartlet to Knope: Politics and instructional television The West Wing Politics as Entertainment Leslie Knope Jed Bartlet instructional TV Curator's Note The West Wing seems to be a unique example in recent American television. Despite its long t ...
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  “After 4 Years of a Celebrity President,” is Romney the Anti-Celebrity Candidate?

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  Sue Collins Michigan Technological University

  August 13, 2012

  4 comments

  of mass adulation, which wins him access to more intimate venues within the popular public sphere ...
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  To Give Anything Less

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  Scott F. Parker University of Minnesota

  August 02, 2012

  Curtis Stone sixty years ago to win both the 10,000m and the 5,000m at the Olympic Trials, Galen Rupp set ... Pre grew up in Oregon and ran for the University of Oregon, each winning multiple national ... be by winning gold in London. Pre finished fourth in the Munich games, stumbling to the finish after ...
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  When Idle Hands Were the Devil's Workshop: Did Early Game Manufacturers Overcome A Gaming Prejudice?

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  Nicolas Ricketts National Museum of Play at The Strong

  June 25, 2012

  6 comments

  ahead--or slightly devilish setbacks. The winning player achieved the last space, literally Happy Old Age, ...

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