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Dept. of open questions: Why not infomercials?
Rob Walker: "I’ve been wondering why the networks don’t respond to the writer’s strike by simply running high-end infomercials. That is: Just let Nike or whoever buy an hour of prime time, and let them do what they want."
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"Why waste your time staying informed when pretending to be informed is sooo much easier? Eric Ledgin gives you your weekly Talking Points."
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On Geico's ad icon shilling for some other brand
"Earlier this week a favored Murketing reader drew my attention a curious magazine ad from Weatherproof Garment Company. The print ad shows a caveman in a Weatherproof jacket."
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How Accurate is "Mad Men?" Let's Ask An Ad Veteran (My Father)
"In this first installment, he reflects on elitism in the advertising industry, drinking culture, how concepts and ideas really came to fruition, and the nature of agency-client interaction -- all themes right smack in the center center of AMC's Mad Men."
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"It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers."
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Hulu Translates To "Cease" and "Desist" in Swahili. Oops.
"Hulu means “butt� in both Indonesian and Malay. But that’s nothing compared to Swahili, which 80 million or so people speak in sub-Saharan Africa. In Swahili, Hulu means, among other things, both “cease� and “desist.�"
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NBC pumps up for 'Gladiators' redo
"The competition skein -- which featured players with names like Nitro, Turbo and Laser in its campy, early '90s syndie incarnation -- will be updated for the 21st century with new technology and twists."
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"South Park' Creators Win Ad Sharing in Deal
"Comedy Central and the creators of the popular show, "South Park," have agreed to create a hub to spread the program and related material across the Internet, mobile platforms and video games."
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Lessons of "Simpsons" marketing: Clip and save
"These, in other words, are the “lessons� you can apply to your film or brand. I’m revealing them to you now! Are you ready? Here goes! You heard it here first!"
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My Adventures Into The Mouth Of The 7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart
"Here we have an army of Indian and Pakistani workers who, for years, have attempted to beat down the 'Thank you, come again' stereotype, and who are now being forced . . . to dress as Apu, the most blatant of all convenience store cliches."
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Predicting American Idol winners with search.
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Media 2.0 Intel (May 16, 2007)
National TV moving local, newspapers getting in to video and the problems with the wheel metaphor for media companies.
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Colbert: Content for It-Getters
"Peak content offerings, web-like referencing, harnessed users enhancing the overall work--these are the concepts that everyone is trying to master whereever new media is intersecting with old."
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"My point wasn't about whether someone gets Apple TV or not, rather that it's a product designed for a different market than folks who want to hook up traditional PCs to TV sets."
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Bochco enters the online world
"I used to have friends that would call me on the phone constantly and say, "Listen to this one ... ." It was a culture of storytelling -- joke telling -- because that's a kind of community, and people don't do that anymore."
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Nickelodeon's winning user-generated content strategy
"For old media companies (specifically TV networks) wondering what to do about new media, pay attention -- this is one right way to do it."
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Cavemen get their own show (I told you so)
"Well, well. ABC has done a deal with the Geico cavemen to do a sitcom. The show will be set in Atlanta, where three prehistoric men battle prejudice as they go about their lives."
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Get the message: it's the medium
TV can be dangerous to your health.
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Beyond the X's and O's, a Lesson in How to Be Big
"For starters, protect the product by limiting its exposure."
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They sleep 18 hours and party 24.
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Brands Produce Their Own Shows
"More marketers are creating their own TV shows in the hopes of endearing viewers to the brands behind them."
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The Decomposition of the Television Set
"These changes aren't evolutionary shifts. They are revolutionary. And, as with revolutions, two things can happen. You win big, or you lose big. There generally is no revolutionary middle class."
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"Did the users of youTube give their loyalty (and eyeballs) to youTube or NBC during and after the whole "Lazy Sunday" fiasco? Do users of iTunes give their attention to ABC or iTunes (or their iPod) when they download the latest episode of "Lost?""
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"I have found so many easy ways to get any type of media instantly that I decided I would share this with everyone else."
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Engagement Is a Euphemism For Measuring the ROI of Brand Advertising
"Between Google, with its algorithms . . . and TV brand advertising, with its outdated input metrics that are useless for measuring real return on investment . . . is the “fuzzy middle� where the battle for the future of advertising will be fought."
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"The "how they make money" question pales in comparison to how they are -- and more importantly will be -- making money for others, and that's where the real value of this kind of portal exists."
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Apple previews iTV home theater playback box
"Resembling a squat Mac Mini, the iTV will use wireless networking to stream movies and TV shows from iTunes to a television."
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"Successful vlog stars are not actors. They are successful because we believe them. They are anti-actors. It’s the realness of them which make them successful in the first place."
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Google CEO wants $74 billion TV ad market
"Google is preparing to deliver 'targeted measurable television ads' and Schmidt says Google has 'a good shot at it.'"
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"High on the list of new rules is an entirely different approach to advertising . . . This is what smart ad executives mean when they refer to "transparency"  precision in a world formerly dominated by blue smoke and mirrors."
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Apparently "forever" has been over-rated
"Diamonds are no longer a girl's best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace."
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"YouTube dispels the mystical air around witnessing things. The TV audience doesn’t have to stick around."
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An insane amount of Jeopardy questions over the last 20 years saved in one place.
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ESPN Wants to Be MySpace for Fans
""Monday Night Surround" will feature scouting reports, news and games within a game, where fans from the opposing teams register and battle each other for fan supremacy through trivia, IQ contests, debates and betting contest . . . "
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The Sins of American Sportscasting
"All these strands together add up to the crisis in American sportscasting that is made evident at every World Cup, when English-speaking fans flee in enormous numbers to listen to commentary in a language they don’t even understand."
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Jeopardy super geek Ken Jennings has a blog.
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Google's tv eavesdropping plan
"By using its microphone to listen in and then connecting to an online database it could identify the show, and how far through you are."
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"When the viewing universe for any program shrinks, that impacts ad rates, which impacts revenue. The only way these companies can produce growth, then, is by cutting expenses, and in the creative world, that is suicide."
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A chat with the science-savvy writers behind "The Simpsons" and "Futurama"
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"Disney said it will make episodes of its shows available online, for free and on-demand, the day after they air on broadcast."
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The Mistake of Extending Brands
"In trying to protect and expand its brands, network television is shooting itself in the foot with an all or nothing strategy involving those brands."
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NBC's Flawed Unbundled Strategy
"They're trying to build a sort of MySpace around the NBC brand, but they acknowledge that "people" think they're "just this old media brand." Well, yeah. And why is that? Because the network IS an old media brand."
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"With the exception of the prime-time figure skating competition Tuesday, ratings have been subterranean, as the Torino Games have been routinely trounced by everything from American Idol to the Home Shopping Network."
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ABC to Offer Ad-Supported Prime-Time Show Downloads
ABC looks like the first network to have jumped in on this stuff. The shows will include ads different than the broadcast.
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Rambling about blogging and TV
"It's only because things are so lax that everyone and their brother saw the Chronicles of Narnia SNL spoof video, and SNL ratings definitely saw a spike in the shows that followed."
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"What Google wants to do with these trailers is SERVE EVERY TV COMMERCIAL ON THE PLANET because only they will be able to do it efficiently."
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Rupert Murdoch On the Media Microchunk
"We're downloading minute segmentsâ€â€original "mobisodes"â€â€of the Fox hit "24." Soon we'll be downloading the funniest joke of the week in "Family Guy." People will be sitting in bars and holding up their phones and laughing. It'll be a pretty serious pi
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The Moment of Zen: The Daily Show and Product Development
"While there’s nothing particularly unique about the way The Daily Show involves the audience, it does remind us that good design practices that truly include audiences are ubiquitous; not just for narrowly defined brainstorming sessions and design revi
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"At Spot Runner we make it easy, simple and affordable for everyone to take advantage of local TV advertising."
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Platicity and Post Branding Mini-Case: Spot Runner
"Spotrunner's intent isn't just to make buying TV ads hyperefficient - it's to make the entire TV advertising value chain hyperefficient, like Google makes the larger media value chain hyperefficient."
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A deep look into the psychological effects of the reality television process on its stars.
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Speak Up! looks at how corporate logos are animated on television.
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"Instead of auguring a new day for SNL, maybe it points up what's missing in mainstream rapâ€â€an awareness that it's OK to be goofy. Who needs Biz Markie and Tone-Loc?"
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I Invented ... the Yellow First-Down Line
"Meet Marvin White, the mastermind behind the greatest boon to televised sports since slo-mo."
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grey goose's good tastin branded entertainment
"Iconoclasts, Grey Goose vodka's venture into branded entertainment, debuted last week on the Sundance Channel."
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With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.
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If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History
Some screenshots of Fox News' coverage of important events through history
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ABC Affiliates Begin Video Podcasting
"News affiliates WABC-TV in New York and WLS-TV in Chicago have begun video podcasting their broadcasts."
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"Jon Stewart is very funny and on his cult US television show he's a rare scourge of the rich and powerful, especially Bush and his court. Gary Younge puts it to him, is he really angry with America, or is he a man on a mission for the next joke?"
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Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker: O.C. Season 3
"Seth suggests hiding in Sandy Cohen’s eyebrowsâ€â€500/1"
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"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart."
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"Available exclusively in Amazon.com's Apparel & Accessories Store, Necessary Objects for The O.C. is the first branded women's fashion collection for The O.C."
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Late night legend. Wild animal beast. Who will win?
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Rushkoff: "But cable television is not the place to launch the great interactive media experiment for the 21st Century. The great cable TV revolution already happened with CNN and MTV."
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Gore's Webby TV Network Debuts
"With its debut Monday, Current TV will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks -- on whether its programming can hold a viewer's interest."
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"Much of the "canned laughter" used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during broadcasts of "The Red Skelton Show""
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On Andy Milonakis, viral video turned MTV star
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"Late-night infomercial clown Matthew Lesko has authored nearly 100 books on government grants. His formula? “I don’t write,� he says. “I plagiarize.�"
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The Family Guy Salutes Shepard Fairey
Apparently Peter painted a big Obey Giant on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Piracy is Good? Part Two: The New Laws of Television
"The forces that cry "Piracy!" today will be congratulating themselves on their "sound business practices" tomorrow. There's money to be made; there is a viable economic model."
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Things That Are Just Barely Thicker Than Peter Gallagher's Eyebrows.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Molasses"
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On the Beach With Dave Chappelle
In South Africa, TIME's Simon Robinson talks with the comic about his sudden disappearance from Chappelle's Show
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5ives: "1. Have Ryan start punching preppies at parties again"
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Mitch Hedberg was supposed to be the next Seinfeld
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Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC
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'Daily Show' Personality Gets His Own Platform
NY Times"It will be called "The Colbert Report" - though, if Mr. Colbert has his way, the announcer will pronounce it with a faux-French accent: The co-BEAR ra-PORE."
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Why can't indie bands stay on the soundtrack -- and off the stage -- of trendy TV teen shows?
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Cookie Monster Advocating Eating Healthy
AP: " "Even Cookie Monster is learning to control his cookie cravings," Frist told me by e-mail. "His sage advice opened our eyes to the simple joys of a tasty cookie and now reminds us that moderation is the key to healthy living.""
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Ten reasons why Mark Cuban is today's Long Tail hero
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Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News
NYTimes: "Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations . . ."
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For Those of You Who Wonder How That TV Show Began
Fox is going to start offering DVDs for $10 that include a few episodes from the first season of shows and a $10 rebate to buy the full DVD
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Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV!
The top 10 best and worst looking celebrities on HDTV
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NCAA® March Madness® on Demand
Watch NCAA games On Demand or Live on the web
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What happens when advertisers pull their money from television?
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Some data from JupiterResearch on the increase in internet usage time
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A Room With A View: TVs Still Beat PCs In Kids Bedrooms
Looking at the cultural effects of having TVs and internet in children's bedrooms
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The Many moods of Mischa Barton
Mischa Barton's range is simply unparalelled
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Another BitTorrent site for TV shows
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IFILM is hosting all the Super Bowl ads for your enjoyment
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How people ranked the ads. Anheiser-Busch took two of the top three spots.
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Super Bowl XXXIV Advertising Bonanza Review
Adland reviews and rates all the ads from the Super Bowl
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False evacuation report causes confusion
Someone pressed the wrong button and told all of Connecticut it must evacuate. Wow.
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BitTorrent downloads of both new and old popular shows
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Alf Commentary Episode One, 01.11.05
Flak Magazine does audio commentary for the ALF pilot
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A list of all the songs that have been on the show
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The ten best song use in 2004 TV commercials
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Follow the show's return (without RSS or permalinks)
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You can watch the entire 90 minute PBS special online
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Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come
NYTimes on the true history of Festivus
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or . . . "Alex Trebek is a scumbag"
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Twice the Annoyance, but a Tradition Emerges
Chrismakkuh hits the OC again and The New York Times is right there to document it
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Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
Even Homer's not stupid enough to use Internet Explorer
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He is out of his mind
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TiVo Will No Longer Skip Past Advertisers
The tool that lets viewers control the TV will soon sport 'billboards' and track viewing habits.
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Top Season Pass shows sampled from 20,000 anonymous TiVo households and does not include any personally identifiable viewing information
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Triumph goes on Crossfire
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It takes hours of hard work  and plenty of clever tricks  to make a fast-food burger look good enough to eat
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Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark
The story of TV-B-Gone
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Turn off any television with a keychain sized remote
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A former writer's assistant for 'Friends' is suing saying that what she heard in the writing room was sexual harassment
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Video of Stewart going off on the Crossfire guys
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Transcript of The Daily Show host on CNN Crossfire
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Fabricated Kerry Posting Leads to Apology From Fox News
Can Fox still deny they are Conservatively biased?
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'Laguna Beach': Surfing on a Wave of Adolescent Angst
I watched last night and it sucked, where was the drama? Very disappointing
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Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race
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Transcript from Jon Stewart on O'Reily
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Interview with Dan Mazer, Producer of Da Ali G Show
Gives the lowdown on Borat and Kazakhstan
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Way longer than I was wiling to read, but when I have about an hour to kill I know what I'll be doing
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How does Ali G keep conning famous guests?
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Quality's not great, but they're still funny
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The truth about Kazakhstan
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Comparing Paris Hilton to Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Real dish on life after 'The Real World'
A look at past real worlders
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Public Lives: Covering the Convention for Laughs
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Motley Crue members are getting reality TV shows
Thank the lord
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Fall TV to show 19 straight days of football
I can't wait
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Powerful White Men, Watch Out (for Ali G)
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Ken Jennings and multiple intelligences
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Gay marriage/box turtle connection
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Ad Watch: Kerry Hit on Abortion, Contraception (washingtonpost.com)
Analysis of the new Bush ad
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Kottke takes a stab at the future world with Jennings as Jeopardy mainstay
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Limit child TV viewing to an hour each day, study urges
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The Cheerful Confessions of Ali G, Borat and Bruno
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Internal memos at Fox News Channel
On Wonkette, no idea if these are for real
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Good New York Times article on Jeopardy
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Slate: Ken Jennings and Lance Armstrong, who's the better athlete?
Jeopardy vs. Tour de France
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TV News in a Postmodern World, Part XXVII
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Alf to Host Television Special
ALF is my hero
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The Real Truth Behind MTV's The Real World Houses
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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Thou-Shalt-See TV
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The New York Times > Technology > New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV
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