Political candidates are now sending out dvd mailers—videos of themselves talking about their plans for the country. As if life weren’t hard enough! As if there were endless amounts of landfill space to cram with never-watched candidate dvd mailers!
The medium is all wrong, completely contradictory: these are slickly packaged odes to sincerity. It’s like [...]
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The Great Midwest
By david masciotra, March 9, 2007 11:22 am in in depth 
Sens Obama and Clinton hail from Illinois, one of the great Midwest heartland states… So what goes on there, again?
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From the catty and vacant girls on shows like “America’s Next Top Model” and “Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll” to the sexed-up, lingerie-clad corpses on “C.S.I.”— women mostly get short shrift on TV. A new trend is making females even more one-dimensional. The names of the shows say it all.
Lifetime is [...]
So much effort is put into categorizing and analyzing hip-hop. Is underground better than mainstream hip-hop? Is gangsta rap teaching our youth violence and disrespect? Following from Byron Hurt’s documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which aired on PBS last week, CNN decided to do their own little special on the issue. The leading question [...]
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