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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television regional media Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction history failure educational TV distribution airplanes 1960s 1950s Curator's Note The Midwest ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  Two quick (honest!)

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 12:26 am

  players to reach their earning potential compared to football or basketball, the equipment and space ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Neurosis in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice: Extremism, Anxiety, and the 1964 Presidential Campaign

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  February 06, 2008

  broadcasting grew even stronger. The DNC’s neurotic, confessing Republican helped LBJ win the presidential ...
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  Re: Two Words: Chuck Norris

  Interesting post. I'd like

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, January 16, 2008 — 5:52 pm

  policy, etc. And it is here where this message is likely to actually win people over to the Huckabee camp. ...
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  Two Words: Chuck Norris

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  Ian Reilly University of Guelph

  January 16, 2008

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  Two Words: Chuck Norris branding satire politics Mike Huckabee celebrity endorsement conservatism Republicans Curator's Note Mike Huckabee's collaboration with Chuck Norris – a minute-long advert suggestively called HuckChuck Facts – provides a ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  I haven’t seen the film

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 7:29 pm

  I suspect that much of the trust Jon Stewart, for example, has earned is the result of his continual ...
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  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  January 15, 2008

  7 comments

  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping culture jamming performance art parody consumerism religion irony authenticity Reverend Billy Church of Stop Shopping What Would Jesus Buy Curator's Note Reverend Billy is the bouffa ...
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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  Ted, thanks for a very

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Monday, January 14, 2008 — 8:26 pm

  affirms their own ideological position(s). After this episode aired, Karen Hunter—a Pulitzer Prize winning ...
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  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

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  Ted Gournelos Old Dominion University

  January 14, 2008

  8 comments

  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness whiteness race South Park Comedy Central destabilize Michael Richards Richard Dyer George Lipsitz irony A Time to Kill Training Day Curator's Note As scholars like Richard Dyer and George Lipsitz have pointed out, one of ...

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