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Nanny TV

March 4, 2005 Laurie Ouellette / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 12 comments

by: Laurie Ouellette / Queens College
Are your kids a handful? Are you exhausted? Is your house a “zoo?” Do you need help juggling the demands of work and family? Me too.

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I’m A Celebrity – Analyse Me: The Appeal of Celebrity Reality TV

March 4, 2005 Kirsty Fairclough / University of Salford, UK 6 comments

by: Kirsty Fairclough / University of Salford, UK
What celebrity reality TV offers as opposed to its celebrity-constructing counterpart is not the transformation of the “ordinary” person into the “extraordinary,” but the opposite trajectory.

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Belaboring Reality

March 4, 2005 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 17 comments

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College CUNY
In season one of The Simple Life, the apparently soulless Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton spend a month in rural Arkansas disappointing the Ledings, the humble, hard-working farm family that has agreed to take them in.

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Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy

March 4, 2005 Doug Kellner / UCLA 4 comments

by: Doug Kellner / UCLA
On March 10, 2004, when speaking to AFL-CIO union workers in Chicago, John Kerry said in what he thought was an off-mike comment: “Let me tell you–we’re just beginning to fight here. These guys are the most crooked, lying group of people I’ve ever seen.”

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The Credibility of Reality TV and Its Lineage with other Photographic Arts

March 4, 2005 Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona 6 comments

by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
Recently, I was asked to comment on the credibility of reality television as compared to the credibility of street photography by artists like Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Cindy Sherman.

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P.S. An Idol’s Pace

March 4, 2005 Mimi White / Northwestern University 5 comments

by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
This column is something of a postscript to the last one I wrote, concerning the differential paces of television.

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Can the Social History of Audiences Contribute to Media Reform?

March 4, 2005 Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont 6 comments

by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Zephyr Teachout, formerly a staffer for Howard Dean’s Presidential campaign, recently published an open memo to the Democratic Party about using the internet to help rejuvenate the Party at the grassroots…

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