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Our “white people problems” problem: Why it’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative | TV | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club

"To some extent, this is mainly a personal beef. I get annoyed whenever anyone slaps a label on something and then presumes that the label itself says all that needs to be said. Whenever a critic or a potential audience member sniffs about “dad rock” or “chick lit” or “one for the fanboys,” it raises my hackles. If you’d rather not engage with what a piece of art actually is—as in, what it expresses and how well it expresses it—then fine. But don’t presume some kind of superiority because of that choice. One of the biggest fallacies in the way we talk about art is this idea that somehow personal taste equates to quality: That each of us miraculously only enjoys movies and music that are the best of their respective medium, and ergo, any movies and music we don’t enjoy must be terrible."

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27 days ago by cluebucket

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$20 for 10 minutes

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Date: 2012-04-06, 3:56PM EDT

I'm looking to listen to the masters on 1540 AM radio to see if it is ahead of the television broadcast. I will phone you and you can put the phone next to the radio.
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6 weeks ago by cluebucket

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News for TV Majors: 2 Broke Girls at TCA

"the ultra-awkward 2 Broke Girls panel at [Television Critics' Association], where showrunner Michael Patrick King did not take kindly to critics' questions related to the show's jokes about race."

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? - NYTimes.com

"Colbert too is on the side of corporate personhood. 'Just because someone was born in a lawyer’s office and is incorporeal doesn’t mean he should have no rights,' he likes to say."
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"[Colbert] bounds across the set to a table in front of a fireplace with the Latin motto “Videri quam esse” (“To seem to be, rather than to be”)"
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"Correction: January 4, 2012: An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the title of a segment of 'The Daily Show' that featured Colbert. It was 'Even Stevphen,' not 'Stephven.'"

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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NBC's "Whitney" and CBS' "2 Broke Girls" : The New Yorker

"The problem is that 'Whitney' is a terrible show, though in ways that resonate with our culture’s debates about women and humor..."

"...Women are conniving and dull. The show feels startlingly retro and cruel... Yet in later episodes of 'Whitney' the mood becomes less caustic (you can practically hear the network notes), which only makes things worse. Whitney’s boyfriend calls her his 'best friend,' the audience awws, and the show, which has so little heart, loses even its cold, dark soul, as Whitney morphs from Lucy into Harriet, the patient and boring wife."

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december 2011 by cluebucket

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The Revolution Will Be Streamed - The Morning News

"Tim went up to another one. 'Do you think we could chitchat?' he proposed.

"The cop shook his head.

"Tim tried two more police officers. Each time, he used the absurd word 'chitchat.' I began to feel love for Tim."

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december 2011 by cluebucket

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Self-Reliant Film » Blog Archive » The Pornography of the Real

Jill Godmilow: The “pornography of the real” involves the highly suspect, psychic pleasure of viewing “the moving picture real” … a powerful pornographic interest in real people, real death, real destruction and real suffering, especially of “others”, commodities in film. These “pleasures” are not brought to our attention...

P. Harrill: "I think of storytelling as a kind of citizenship, so I don’t blame people for wanting to know the stories unfolding in Blacksburg, nor do I blame journalists for telling those stories. Still, how one gathers the facts, why you gather them, and the way you tell them can’t be separated from the story you’re telling."

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october 2011 by cluebucket

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