Ramblings & ephemera
From Christopher M. Fairman’s “Fuck” (bepress Legal Series: 7 March 2006):
The PTC [Parents Television Council] is a perfect example of the way word taboo is perpetuated. The group’s own irrational word fetish - which they try to then impose on others - fuels unhealthy attitudes toward sex that then furthers the taboo [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Marc Ambinder’s “HisSpace” (The Atlantic: June 2008):
Improvements to the printing press helped Andrew Jackson form and organize the Democratic Party, and he courted newspaper editors and publishers, some of whom became members of his Cabinet, with a zeal then unknown among political leaders. But the postal service, which was coming into its own as [...]
Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Robert Sam Anson’s “Birth of an MTV Nation” (Vanity Fair: November 2000):
Now watched by more than 340 million viewers in 139 countries (among them, Russia, China, and Vietnam) …
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From Chris Suellentrop’s “Scooby-Doo: Hey, dog! How do you do the voodoo that you do so well?” (Slate: 26 March 2004):
The Washington Post’s Hank Stuever concisely elucidated the “Scooby worldview” when the first live-action movie came out: “Kids should meddle, dogs are sweet, life is groovy, and if something scares you, you should confront it.”
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Posted on October 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Stephen Lawson & Robert McMillan’s AT&T plans CNN-syle security channel (InfoWorld: 23 June 2005):
Security experts at AT&T are about to take a page from CNN’s playbook. Within the next year they will begin delivering a video streaming service that will carry Internet security news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Adam Goodheart’s “The Last Island of the Savages” (The American Scholar, Autumn 2000, 69(4):13-44):
The gift-dropping missions had ended in 1996. There was still no television set on North Sentinel; it remained, like Prospero’s island, a place where the air shimmered with invisible signals, with unseen Hindi soap operas and Thai music that drifted, unheard, [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The New York Times‘ “Lew Anderson, 84, Clarabell the Clown and a Bandleader, Dies“:
Lew Anderson, whose considerable success as a musician, arranger and bandleader paled before the celebrity he achieved as Clarabell the Clown, Howdy Doody’s sidekick on one of television’s first children’s shows, died on Sunday in Hawthorne, N.Y. …
“Well, his feet are [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “NBC: iPod Boosts Prime Time“:
NBC’s “The Office” delivered a 5.1-its highest ratings ever-last Thursday among adults 18 to 49, a bump the network credits in large part to the show’s popularity as an iPod download. …
Such a connection between podcast success and broadcast ratings success is particularly significant because the NBC data is among [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Yahoo! News (March 2004):
Andy Rooney certainly knows how to stir the passion in his viewers. The ‘60 Minutes’ curmudgeon said Sunday he got 30,000 pieces of mail and e-mail in response to his Feb. 22 commentary, in which he called ‘The Passion of the Christ’ filmmaker Mel Gibson a ‘wacko.’
It’s the biggest viewer response [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From Joel Kurtzman, Interview with Gary Hamel, Strategy & Business (4th Qtr 1997):
One of the most interesting cases of all is CNN, which “saw at least three things that had already changed in our world that others had not yet put together”: technology changes produced small satellite uplinks that made it possible to report from [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From “Bhutan and Fiji: The Elusive Influences of Television” in NetFuture #93, quoting The New York Times of 20 May 1999:
Meanwhile, a widely reported study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School documents some changes in Fiji associated with the 1995 introduction of television. These changes have to do with young women’s eating habits and [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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