Allison Perlman
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Thanks for a great post,
Thanks for a great post, Josh! It's odd to see Oscar as orange, but wonderful to see Gordon's sideburns! It seems noteworthy to me that all three posts so far have focused on the same historical moment in U.S. public broadcasting. While it' ... -
I love StoryCorps and admit
I love StoryCorps and admit to having gotten choked up listening to some of the conversations recorded. I wonder if the absence of the camera, and the sole presence of the microphone, enables an intimacy and openness that participants may shy away from if ... -
I had the exact same reaction
I had the exact same reaction as Bill, and also came up empty-handed. It's true that "PBS comedy" reads as kind of oxymoronic, which only speaks to Laurie's point on the unrealized possibilities of public TV. The commemorative broadcas ... -
Re: Law in the Text
Thanks for the fantastic
Thanks for the fantastic post, Tom, which reads like the perfect conclusion to this week. Your discussion of It's a Wonderful Life reminds me of the tremendous amount of programming on the History Channel about WWII, the product of free public domai ... -
Thanks for a great post,
Thanks for a great post, Josh! I really appreciate how, if I'm reading it correctly, you suggest that contracts and contract law cases frequently instantiate, rather than merely adjudicate, industrial formations and relationships, with implications ... -
I’m pretty sure the activists
I'm pretty sure the activists in that clip are members of Code Pink Women for Peace. They've been some of the most theatrical media activists; back in 2003, in protest of the FCC's new media ownership rules, they hung out in front of the C ... -
Sorry to be chiming in so
Sorry to be chiming in so late, but I do want to echo the comments so far-- this is a great post, Bill, and I love how you reconstitute what counts as "policy" and who gets included under the label of "policymaker." "Top-down" ... -
Smoot and the Old Right
Wow, "arid" and "bizarre" are generous descriptors, and I'm still wrapping my head around the overall coherence of this clip. Is the implication that the logical extension of a larger and more powerful federal government is of o ... -
conservative women and feminism
A number of years ago, Ann Coulter spoke in Austin at the invitation of the Young Conservatives of Texas. One very sincere young woman, who was a member of YCT, asked Coulter what advice she had for young conservative women. Coulter-- whose public perso ... -
Indecency Policy
It truly is the case that never ends... What has interested me about the FCC's indecency policy, and especially the ramped up enforcement of it around 2002-2003, is how out of step it is with the Commission's embrace of deregulation over the las ...