Tuned In
If you watched the season 2 premiere of Mad Men, you saw televisions in every room tuned to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s tour of the White House. Now you can watch TV just like Betty Draper and Salvatore! AMC is streaming the entire original CBS/NBC News special from Valentine’s Day 1962. Adjust the rabbit ears on your laptop and …
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2008, it is starting to seem, is the Year of the Commenter. New York Magazine did an entire cover story about The What, an aggressive pseudonymous commenter on Brooklyn real-estate blog Brownstoner. Gawker–basically the Olympics of snarky commenters–did a piece on the backlash against snarky commenters. Nerd World’s Lev Grossman wrote …
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You may think that the recent Gallup/USA Today poll—which was the first in a long stretch of national polls to show McCain with a lead, among likely voters—is right on. You may think it’s bogus. You may think it’s the first to accurately detect a backlash against Obama. You may think it’s an anomalous outlier with a suspect method of …
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So at this point we’ve all accepted that the History Channel has a rather, shall we say, broad definition of its mission. Basically, if it happened, it’s history. Or if it might happen. Or if it’s happening now.
Or, in the case of last night’s debut, Jurassic Fight Club, if it may or may not have happened 70 million years ago, but we …
