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Tuned In+News Media | 1291 days ago

The Media's Pro- Anti-Obama Bias

By James Poniewozik

The notion that the media is biased in favor of Barack Obama has become an article of faith—at least among those people who have run campaigns against Barack Obama. Now there’s a new study that finds a definite Obama slant in campaign coverage—the other way. A study of the first six weeks of the general-election [...]

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Tuned In+Advertising | 1291 days ago

There Has to Be Advertising for People Who Don't Have a Sense of Humor

By James Poniewozik

As long as we’re on the subject of advertising this morning, there’s an interesting ad review by Seth Stevenson in Slate for a Scion XB spot, which asks whether it takes the Volkswagen “Think Small” strategy—turn a product’s weakness into an asset—too far. The weakness in this case is that the car looks like a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1291 days ago

Mad Men Watch: A Man Out of Time

By James Poniewozik

Losing his tight grip on the short hairs of the public imagination? / AMC SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish your Valentine’s Day shopping and watch the season two premiere of Mad Men. Because Mad Men‘s Matthew Weiner wrote for The Sopranos, the comparisons between the two shows tend to get overdone. But [...]

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TIME at Comic-Con: Lost

By James Poniewozik

From my e-mail inbox to you, the tireless Rebecca Winters Keegan reports on this weekend’s Lost panel at Comic-Con: Noon, Saturday The Lost panel is happening in the 6500-seat Hall H after the Heroes panel. Some attendees stood in line for seven hours to get inside. Season five hasn’t begun taping yet, so it’s not [...]