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Survivor: Fiji: What If They Gave a Race War and Nobody Came?

Is it unhip to be blogging about Survivor? Is this, like, so 2000 of me? Fine. I don’t care. You punk kids go play Wii or something. Here’s what I thought: * Now there’s a novel idea–what if you cast a reality show with a bunch of white contestants, and a bunch of black contestants, [...]

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Murdoch Promises Laissez-Faire and Balanced Biz News

When Fox News went on the air over 10 years ago, it sold itself with the brilliant slogan “Fair and Balanced.” As a piece of marketing, it was ruthless and efficient, in four short syllables saying that there was a problem with the rest of TV news and that Fox was the solution. Now, as [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Too Cool for Preschool

In the print edition of TIME, my Culture Complex this week is about the burgeoning and horrifying phenomenon of hipster-parent memoirs. Toddlers in mosh pits! Babies in indie record stores! Gen-X parents clinging to their alternative cred with Veggie Booty-stained fingers! Of course, it’s not a hipster scene without a feud among splinter groups, and [...]