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Nancy Giles, The New Super-Elite, and Who's in the News
January 6, 2011John Boehner took charge of the House of Representatives with a bang--a really big bang, from a really big gavel. Also a few tears, of course, and a dramatic reading of the Constitution--though Nancy Giles notes that the Republicans might be surprised as to what they find in there, as they tend to treat it more like a game of Mad Libs.The F Word: Leaving the People Out of the Debate
January 6, 2011“Occasionally you see pictures and they're standing in some long line or applying for jobs, but they're not thought of,” said GRITtv guest Edrie Irvine recently, speaking of unemployed people like her. It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on U.S. TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them. Politicians, pundits and propagandists targeted them for cuts and layoffs. But public workers themselves are barely in the conversation.Best of 2010: Steve Earle and Daryn Strauss
December 29, 2010Continuing our best-of-2010, we bring you an in-depth interview with musician, actor and activist Steve Earle. "Tremé is the musical heart of New Orleans just like New Orleans is the musical heart of America, and I don't just mean the United States," says Steve Earle, who knows a little something about music. The longtime singer/songwriter and activist has played a role as a street musician in the new HBO series Tremé, and has a long history both with the show's creator, David Simon, and with the city and the neighborhood in which the show is set.Jenn Pozner & Anna McCarthy: Talking Television
December 4, 2010Mad Men harks back to an era when advertising was art and television was educational--maybe. Meanwhile, reality television gives us messages that seem to fit right in with a 1950s ethos--right down to the race, gender, and class politics. Television is everywhere, and everyone is talking about it, so we asked Anna McCarthy, NYU professor and author of The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America, and Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women in Media and News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, to join us to talk TV.Anna McCarthy & Jenn Pozner, the Economics of Happiness, and Fire in my Belly
December 3, 2010Mad Men harks back to an era when advertising was art and television was educational--maybe. Meanwhile, reality television gives us messages that seem to fit right in with a 1950s ethos--right down to the race, gender, and class politics. Television is everywhere, and everyone is talking about it, so we asked Anna McCarthy, NYU professor and author of The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America, and Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women in Media and News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, to join us to talk TV.Steve Earle, Where Should the Birds Fly, and Daryn Strauss
September 3, 2010"Tremé is the musical heart of New Orleans just like New Orleans is the musical heart of America, and I don't just mean the United States," says Steve Earle, who knows a little something about music. The longtime singer/songwriter and activist has played a role as a street musician in the new HBO series Tremé, and has a long history both with the show's creator, David Simon, and with the city and the neighborhood in which the show is set.Daryn Strauss: Watching Women in Digital TV
September 3, 2010It's 2010, and for the first time in history, a female filmmaker won an Oscar for Best Directing. Mind you, we've had four women total ever be nominated, so it's tough to win when you're not even in the race. We look on TV and see an abundance of women: Desperate Housewives, The Closer, Damages, Weeds, I could go on. We look at the box office and we see films like Sex and the City and Twilight, which had the highest grossing opening for a film by a female director ever. Even when it comes to comics and heroes, we were given Buffy.Gigi Sohn: Your TV, Your Choice
December 15, 2009Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge takes some time to explain why cable companies and movie studios want to control what you can watch and when.Demystifying the Media: Joel Silberman
December 11, 2009We peel back the curtain a bit with Joel Silberman, strategic communications consultant/trainer with the New Organizing Institute and also an award-winning theatrical director and performer. Joel gives us some quick tips for doing media that anyone can use should they find themselves on the receiving end of a camera.Media Panel, Garbage Dreams and Cartoons in Conflict
December 10, 2009Obama headed overseas this week, to the Copenhagen climate talks. Today, though, he made a stop in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. It's also Human Rights Day, but you might be excused for not having heard that--the media seems more concerned with Tiger Woods' sex life.
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