I wonder, though, how immune we may've become to the grand "this is the answer" promises. Yes, in the longrun, we all want answers, but just as every pizza joint in New York claims it's The Best and The Original, and I don't belie ...
Most conservative blogs don't really give Olbermann too much of a "pass" due to his background in sports-- they write of him as rampantly biased. Just as most of the rest of us see O'Reilly. And both figures *are* "biased." B ...
At the same time, though, Avi, often the individual and the system can't be so easily separated. Bush simply cannot be an individual as President, so no act of homage or criticism can be directed at the individual (an attack on his bad grammar, for i ...
Responding to Lisa's point, I'd say the recaps, like intro sequences, can be wonderful moments when television shows tell us what the producers think the episode is about. I think of the old back-and-forth between Morley and Justin Lewis about & ...
I must admit to being at first deeply disappointed by the character. What I saw immediately was a very tired stereotype of an East Asian male: small and physically weak, effeminate, without sex appeal, coded as a geek, and there for comic relief. Given ho ...
Thanks, Heather. I find primetime television's slow foray into the realm of adolescent gayness quite interesting: whether it's this guy here talking about being an "outsider" as a 13 yr-old, Ugly Betty's younger brother's sex ...
Yeah, I posted this, since I feel that as media scholars, we're often quick to try and find a correct meaning (or even "a preferred meaning") and a correct way of seeing a text's politics, yet I'm more a believer in texts having m ...
Josh, I find it funny that in all the selling of HD, I've never heard it pointed out by such ads that NTSC provides a weaker resolution pic than do most TV systems in the world. Odd that nobody has seen the nationally chauvinist "USA! USA! We� ...
The images are so patently over the top that the ad’s meaning pushes the opposite direction great analysis-- and fascinating therefore to see that the same clip can work as "legit" satire to some viewers (on the right) and as unintended parody t ...
Context can damn any well-meaning show, though, ironic or not. I can imagine skinheads watching Schindler's List, for instance, and cheering on Ralph Fiennes' character. That said, ironic/parodic/satiric shows seem to occupy particularly volatil ...
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I wonder, though, how immune
Most conservative blogs
At the same time, though,
Responding to Lisa's point,
I must admit to being at
Thanks, Heather. I find
Yeah, I posted this, since I
Josh, I find it funny that
The images are so patently
Context can damn any
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