Controversy for Controversy’s Sake

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I recently watched an online interview of the cast of MTV’s new show, Skins. In case you haven’t heard of it, Skins is the American adaptation of a British show with the same name. It debuted January 17th on MTV and quickly stirred up controversy. It took the Parents Television Council all but two seconds [...]

The Highs & Lows of Fall TV’s Week 1 – GooseRadio Review

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Author’s note: This list would have been in earlier and been more comprehensive if not for an illness and a computer breakdown. Please accept the slightly shorter list. Spring 2010 marked something of an oasis’ end for me, TV-wise. “Flashforward” fizzled, then was canceled. “V’s” acting, writing and production values all steadily declined. “Lost” was [...]

The Great Media Bias

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The nightly news, well more accurately, the nightly, morning, daily, and incessant news, is a very deceptive thing, and the information age has made it possible for this deception to become an even more pervasive and insidious element in our society. Despite the talk about unbiased reporting and so on and so forth, the reporting [...]

FoxNews Needs More Plain Women

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I would just like to take this opportunity to point out that our culture is obsessed with beautiful people. I realize this is not groundbreaking information. However, this obsession has now seeped into the delivery of our information. People are now being hired to report the news based on the way they look. FoxNews is [...]

The Humorous Revolutionary Dodge Commercial

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There’s been a run of oddly pleasant moving picture advertisements of late! The first time I saw this one I did the whole, ‘Did that really just happen?!’…