Tag: media
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On Slave Leia
“It’s upsetting for men to see their [male] heroes treated that way.”
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Good Groups, Bad Groups and Gender Representation in Entertainment
“Imagine never seeing yourself in media. Imagine only seeing you as a sidekick or a hot reward.”
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Inside NFL Locker Room Culture
“Fans want gladiators out on the field and buttoned-up businessmen in the locker room. You can’t always have it both ways.”
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The Fox News Effect
“Fox News-addicted baby boomers have lost their sense of hope.”
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Republicans: Your Leaders Have Lied to You
“Over and over again, they’ve just lied right to your face. ”
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Mass Shootings and Madness
“Over and over again the “mental health issues” being described (outside of Loughner and his ilk) seem to be someone angry about their treatment by the outside world and having difficulty fitting in. Cho shot up Virginia Tech for precisely these reasons. I think the focus on mental health issues beats the hell out of another […]
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Why We Need Sean Hannity
“But the public doesn’t care about this stuff, right? So how do you get Joe America to talk about it in his living room? You give him a little hit of testosterone. Getting to the next step required substituting emotional response for intellectual response. Reality TV, chat boards, talk radio…there were dozens of new vehicles to […]
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Breathless Sports and War
“When you have to fill 24 hours of airtime, everything is breathlessly reported and only the strongest adjectives, war and sport analogies are allowed to survive.” Commenter on Metafilter regarding (coverage of the gold crash (and news in general)