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More Adverstalgia: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

By James Poniewozik

Everything is connected. The other day we discussed commercials selling sugary cereal to kids and a commenter wondered if someday they would go the way of cigarette commercials. Coincidentally, in today’s TIME my column discusses the AMC advertising drama Mad Men, which includes a fictional scene about the creation of the Lucky Strike “It’s Toasted” [...]

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Well, Jessica Rose's Skin Is Awfully Clear

By James Poniewozik

Last year, there was a lot of debate over whether YouTube sensation lonelygirl15 was real or an actress, and a lot of earnest discussion about what that question meant for online ethics and the new media’s effect on narrative. Well, it’s 2007 now, it turned out she was an actress, the ethical/narrative debate was like [...]

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NBC to Paris: A Million for Your Thoughts?

By James Poniewozik

If you believe this morning’s reports, the news media continues to write checks to advance its liberal agenda, this time by… giving a million bucks to a screwed-up heiress? ABC, at least, is charging that it got outbid for an exclusive post-jail interview with Paris Hilton by NBC. NBC counters to the New York Times’ [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: It's An Ad. But Is It Art?

By James Poniewozik

My Culture Complex column in this week’s TIME looks at whether commercials can be greater works than the shows they appear on. The hook is the pilot for ABC’s Cavemen, based on the Geico ads, which was nearly universally dismissed as soon as it was announced. As it turns out, the show looks much better [...]