Reality television
Bamboozled, Led Astray and Run-Amok: Reality Television, Celebrity Worship, and Why It Needs To Go Away but Won’t
“I almost protested the (Iraq War) in the beginning. Almost. Till I saw what happened to them Dixie Chicks. I said ‘Fuck that!’… But I’m like for real though why, why you care so much what the Dixie Chicks say? It’s not like they political scientists. They just bitches who ...read more
Quin Woodward Pu Getting Her Own Reality Show in 5, 4, 3, 2 .....
As much of the internet now knows, relatively unknown DC blogger and in-training socialite Quin Woodward Pu published break up texts a 'rando' (random) sent her after going on a couple of dates, for it to then go viral in response to her craziness. Pu wrote a screed on her ...read more
The Zucker Tradition Continues at CNN
First there was the news that may have come as a surprise to most reasonable people, but which honestly was all-but-assured to those who understand how the corporate world works: the hiring of Jeff Zucker as the new head of CNN Worldwide. Sure, pretty much everyone with a pair ...read more
American Exceptionalism, My Ass
By Chez Pazienza: I'll try to make this quick. Not a day goes by that some lunatic blowhard on Fox News or right-wing talk radio isn't shouting about American exceptionalism and our lack of willingness to obnoxiously preach it to an international community which doesn't give ...read more