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Scandal Postmortem: Will Olivia and Fitz Finally Get Together?
by Natalie Abrams [Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Thursday’s Scandal. Read at your own risk!] Olitz fans, rejoice! Thursday’s episode of Scandal featured the moment Olivia (Kerry Washington) and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) fans had always hoped for, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Bellamy Young, entertainment, Fitz, hit show, Jeff Perry, Kerry Washington, Mellie, Olivia, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes, television, Tony Goldwyn
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Time Warner Cable CEO wants to slim cable bundles, eyes Aereo’s technology
By Cecilia Kang Time Warner Cable’s chief executive said his company may consider capturing television content from public airwaves and delivering them to customers over an Internet connection, a practice that has shaken the entertainment industry. The idea was pioneered by … Continue reading
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Tagged Aereo, Cable television, CBS, Glenn Britt, Les Moonves, NBC, technology, television, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Univision, Washington Post
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Downton Abbey Adds First Black Cast Member
By Robyn Ross Gary Carr will portray the first black character on Downton Abbey during its upcoming fourth season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Carr, who will play a “charming and charismatic young jazz singer,” joins returning regulars Hugh Bonneville, … Continue reading
The Weight Those Heels Carry
By Felicia R. Lee Kerry Washington starts with the shoes. To portray Olivia Pope, the tough crisis manager at the center of the hit ABC series “Scandal,” Ms. Washington is always in gravity-defying heels. How else to make that sexed-up … Continue reading
How Cable News Terrorizes America
by Murtaza Hussain In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and while a massive police manhunt continued for the suspected perpetrator, 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, NBC journalist David Gregory would say to American television viewers: … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 hour news, Boston Marathon, CNN, David Gregory, Fox News Channel, journalism, MSNBC, NBC, television, United States
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Boston aftermath brings out America’s worst prejudices
By David Sirota Between a Saudi student’s profiling and irresponsible CNN and NY Post reports, our nation’s bigotry is on display. For a country that so often purports to be color blind, that insists too many people of color are … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, Boston, Boston Marathon, CNN, David Sirota, Ethnicity, John King, journalism, New York Post, race, racial profiling, reporting, Saudi Arabia, television, United States
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The First Honest Cable Company
I grew up with free over the air television. Between the UHF and VHF bands New York City had a plethora of content available. While it may not have been 24 hour broadcasting and would have proven to be of … Continue reading
On the Politics of ‘Scandal’
By Ken Tucker I freely admit I was late to the wackadoodle political party that is ABC’s Scandal, now hurtling toward a second-season finale on a TV screen near you. After all, it was created by Shonda Rhimes, who managed … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, Kerry Washington, politics, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes, television, Tony Goldwyn
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Ang Lee takes on first TV project
15 March 2013 Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee is branching out into television, after it was announced he will direct the pilot episode of new series, Tyrant. The show marks Lee’s first project since the 2012 film Life of Pi, … Continue reading
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Why Americans Are So Ignorant — It’s Not Only Fox News, There Are Some Understandable Reasons for it
By Lawrence Davidson In 2008, Rick Shenkman, the Editor-in-Chief of the History News Network, published a book entitled Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter. In it he demonstrated, among other things, that most Americans … Continue reading →