Reflections on Katrina in Brazil
by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
Vicki Mayer watches New Orleans endure Hurricane Katrina while on sabbatical in the Amazon.
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Editorial: Why The Amazing Race: Family Edition Doesn’t Suck
by: Joanna Slimmer / FLOW Staff
Formal innovations and family drama…Who cares where they go next?
Comedy is a Woman in Trouble
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Questioning Comedy Central’s fixation on the male audience.
We Are So Screwed: Invasion TV
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Making sense of the supernatural on prime-time.
Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of The Daily Show
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Sham or not, The Daily Show remains deeply committed to its mission: “truthiness.”
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration‘s Meditation on the “Real”
by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.
War, “Incendiary Media,” and International Law (Part II)
by: John Nguyet Erni / City University of Hong Kong
The second of a three part series on media and warfare from a human rights perspective, this column explores the human rights norms that justify the legality of media intervention.
The Cost of Not Selling Out
by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
In an age when TV ads are the new radio, what does it take to avoid selling out?