Tag / television
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Late-Night Election
On what feels like a daily basis, unbelievable lines are thrown out by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. From “I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and I wouldn’t lose voters,” to more cringe-worthy lines like “basket of deplorables,” this election season has produced incredibly ridiculous political rhetoric. It’s comical—in a terrifying way. It…
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Media Polarization and Finding the Truth in Our Politics
Can we put on something less biased?” grumbled my grandfather as the evening news began to play on the TV. At first I did not understand what he meant. The MSNBC Nightly News had always seemed universal to me, its theme song and anchors’ voices ingrained in my idea of America for as long as…
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The Wire’s Angry Dissent
BY GABRIEL RUBIN “It’s good for froth,” David Simon says of the internet. But froth also spills from television sets, with hundreds of shows repackaging a successful formula of cheap laughs, sex, violence, and punctuating music. Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire (among other masterpieces), has eschewed not only conventional television writing wisdom but media…
