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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
What is Rachel Maddow going to be doing going forward? Hint: It’s not going to be business as usual at MSNBC. If you pay any attention to the cable news business, you will know that Rachel Maddow is the only … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeopardy, Questions worth asking, Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stones
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Ignoring partisan rhetoric, what is critical race theory? Making sense out of what critical race theory (CRT) is and is not, Part II
There’s been an awful lot of loose talk about “critical race theory” (CRT) and how it is being taught in everywhere from grade school to college. Most of the people who use the term have little idea what CRT actually … Continue reading
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Tagged critical r, critical theory, CRT, cultural theory, what is critical race theory
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In The Heights, Returning to Theaters, and the Importance of Representation
While I’ve always been a big fan of action and sci-fi flicks, the movie I’ve been most excited about seeing this summer has been Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (Hamilton) and Jon Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians) musical extravaganza In The Heights. In the Heights … Continue reading
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Tagged HBO Max, Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies, race, Warner Brothers
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Bezos, Jeff Bezos Meets Bond, James Bond – Reconfiguring the Media Landscape Part 1
Huge transitions and consolidations are happening in the media business right now as the COVID pandemic winds down. We’re going to take a look at a number of these changes over the next week or so. Today we start with … Continue reading
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Time to reboot after pandemic spring
For the last few months I’ve been down to posting about once a month with everything going on. Now that the semester is over it’s time to get back to thinking about where our media have wandered off over the … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, Hamilton, Mandalorian, Streaming television, video rental
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Is Broadcast TV Done and Over? Or is it Just Awards Shows?
Last evening I was reading reading CNN’s Brian Stelter’s nightly media news newsletter that had just shown up in my mailbox. The lead story was about how television habits have changed during the pandemic. Stelter notes that one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged broadcast television, earthquake in slow motion, Grammy awards, John Prine, recorded music, television, WAP
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Director James Gunn takes on critics of “cancel culture”
Movie director James Gunn has had his own personal run-in with the so-called “cancel culture,” aka being held accountable for things you have said. As you may recall, long before Gunn became a big-time Marvel Cinematic Universe director of the … Continue reading
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Tagged cancel culture, DC, Dr. Seuss, James Gunn, Marvel, movies, offensive tweets, stupid on social media, Warner Brothers
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Is streaming the new a la carte cable? Or is it just more of the same?
Back in the the late 1980s, early 1990s, the television business started going through some big changes. For the first time ever, the original Big Three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) started changing ownership, going from the founders to … Continue reading
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Tagged cable, Disney, earthquake in slow motion, Hutchinson, Ken Auletta, Secret 4, streaming video, WandaVision
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Why did it take so long for Quaker Oats to abandon Aunt Jemima as a pancake brand? Aunt Jemima has a new name: the Pearl Milling Company. Quaker Oats announced it would drop the name Aunt Jemima last summer after … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, BLM, books, branding, Fox News, Hamilton, libraries, movies, Oscars, racism, social media
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Bernie and his Mittens
With all of the awful news over the last few weeks, from the more than 400,000 people dead from the pandemic, to people out of work, to the insurrection attack on the U.S. Capitol, we’ve really needed something wonderful as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie mittens, distracted boyfriend, memes, social media
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