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Who Should The Voice Want to Win The Voice?
If the winner doesn’t become a star, does the show lose cred? If Team Blake wins yet again, does the show get boring?
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From the Source’s Mouth: Still in Hiding, Snowden Does a Q&A Online
Holding an online interview is in the leaker’s spirit of transparency, but it may empower the person giving the A’s as much as the public asking the Q’s.
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John Oliver’s Daily Show: A Little “Weird,” But Maybe It Should Be Weirder
Oliver is effective and prepared with British-guy jokes, but here’s hoping The Daily Show uses this summer as a chance to experiment with its formula.
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Hero or Bad Boyfriend? Edward Snowden and the Personalization of Public Debate
Why does anyone care how good a person the NSA leaker is? Because public debate has become more and more about personality and tribal identification
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Game of Thrones Watch: Blood Is Thicker
The season finale left characters to soak in the aftermath of the Red Wedding, plot for the future, and spend some, er, quality time with family.
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PRISM of Interest: How TV Drama Anticipated the Data-Mining News
This week’s surveillance revelations may have been something you more or less assumed was going on all along, depending on how many primetime spy shows you watch.
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Batter Up! Keith Olbermann Returning to TV, But Not That Kind of TV
Olbermann has been called back up to the majors, or at least TBS, to host a show not about politics but baseball.
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The Children Are the Future (of Online Streaming Video)
Forget Arrested Development; maybe streaming-video services can become an alternative to regular TV by going after your children.
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The Voice Has Finally Reached Peak Country
Thanks to Blake’s successful decision to go all-in on country, this cycle of The Voice has essentially become Nashville Star.
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Game of Thrones Watch: So Close. So Far.
“The Rains of Castamere” delivered a crucial moment from the source books in an episode that was brutal, heartbreaking, impeccably well-constructed, horrifying, and appropriately cruel.
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She Who Would Not Be Stifled: RIP Jean Stapleton, Edith from All in the Family
By far her most memorable role was as Edith Bunker, who helped introduce change to the American living room by inviting America into her own
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Fox’s Megyn Kelly Alpha-Dogs Working-Mom Critic Erick Erickson
Whatever Erick Erickson thinks he knows about the animal kingdom, he’s got a lot to learn about dominant females among the species of Fox.
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Voice of America: What The Voice’s Shocker Elimination Says About the Show and the Audience
Even if it didn’t make you hate this country, Tuesday’s vote showed that The Voice is not, after all, always just about the voice.