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One of the issues facing traditional media in the online-media age is not just losing their status as gatekeepers for their readers; it’s how to remain the gatekeepers for their own staff. In other words, when anyone can post anything online, immediately, in chatrooms, blogs, Facebook or Twitter, what limits do you put on your …
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Brief spoilers for the American Idol elimination after the jump:
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Before you read this post, take a leap to the bottom of the world’s softest mineshaft and watch last night’s season five finale of Lost.
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Clip on your pink bowtie and crack open a bottle of house-brand liquor: Starz’s hilarious Party Down is getting a second season! (However, whether Jane Lynch–now a regular in Fox’s heavily-promoted Glee–will be able to return is still up in the air.) Excerpts from the announcement after the jump:
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Namaste, readers. When last we left our castaways, Jack was preparing to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the Island to change the course of time, while Locke, thirty years in the future, planned to kill a supernatural being. Nothing big ever happens on this show.
Encroaching deadlines prevent me from posting much this morning, so I’ll turn …
I said I’d be posting occasionally from on the road and here I am already. After months of speculation about who would be the president’s choice to head the National Endowment for the Arts, the nominee turns out to be a big surprise — the New York theater producer Rocco Landesman, the man behind Angels in America and The Producers. …
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Spoilers for the season finale of Fringe coming up after the jump:
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This is what American Idol thinks of you, America: you are a sap. You are maudlin and sentimental and the way to your heart is with a big, sloppy ballad, the more power notes the better. So for the penultimate Idol of season 8—and holy crap, there have been 300 episodes of this show?—judges and contestants alike served up the …
Again. But I’ll be posting occasionally from there.
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If a show like Disney’s JONAS is review-proof, then Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey may be endorsement-proof: if you don’t like this Bravo franchise, than I probably can’t persuade you to try this installment. But while I don’t much care if I never see another installment of Orange County, Atlanta or even New York City, I …
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PBS announced today that it plans to overhaul The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer for the 21st century, by instituting some changes to better coordinate the show’s TV and online presence. It’ll also overhaul the newscast for the 20th century, by again pairing Lehrer with a co-anchor—though this time it’ll be rotating co-anchors, rather than a …
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Quick spoilers for How I Met Your Mother and the season finale of House coming up after the jump:
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PBS Kids announced yesterday that it’s debuting, in fall 2010, an educational animated series starring Dr. Seuss’ most famous character. In The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, the giant feline takes six-year-olds Nick and Sally “on a magical journey to all corners of the globe to make natural science discoveries,” in a vehicle …
