Palin's Alaska Rap
Saturday Night Live : Humor
Amy Poehler brings the house down with a Sarah Palin-inspired hip hop ode to Alaska and the McCain campaign.
2008
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Can Late Night Comedy Sink McCain?
Adam Howard : Media Analysis
If Letterman and Saturday Night Live continue to cast McCain as a liar, it could have a devastating impact.
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Mad for Rachel Maddow
Rebecca Traister : Media
The Air America host is this election season's breakout star.
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Should Will Smith Play Obama?
The Colbert Report : Arts, Culture, & Entertainment
Stephen Colbert suggests that playing McCain would be a bigger stretch for the Academy Award nominated movie star.
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Recount: A Nightmare Revisited
Adam Howard : Presidential Election 2000
HBO's Recount will bring back bad memories, which is precisely why you should see it.
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My So-Called Independents
Heather Hendershot
Will TV's new world of branding and product integration destroy small independent productions?
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Adams Ribbed
Nicholas Guyatt
A John Adams portrait seen through the sympathetic lens of HBO is more than the historical figure ever hoped for.
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Market Media Meltdown
Danny Schechter : U.S. Economy
Financial news outlets, tethered to a mission to pump up confidence and support their advertisers, helped fuel the subprime meltdown.
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Mickey Mouse Media
Eric Alterman
A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
2007
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Writers of the World Unite
Luvh Rakhe : Internet & New Media
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.
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Permalancers, Unite!
Anya Kamenetz : Labor Organizing & Activism
Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.
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Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
Barbara Ehrenreich : Children & Child Care
Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.
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Writers Strike, Silence Falls
Barbara Ehrenreich : Film Industry
As the screenwriters strike enters its second week, take a moment to appreciate those without whom late night comics are struck mute, movies are left unmade and on TV, there's nothing but reality.
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The Colbert Rapport
Larry Bogad : Campaigns & Elections
Like other prank campaigns, Stephen Colbert's bid for President promised brilliant satire. It's a shame he's called it quits.
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Burns's War: What Is It Good For?
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
An increasingly bookless universe has become the wasteland so many have feared. In a perfect world, we'd have more Ken Burnses expressing a multiplicity of views.
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Dirty Sexy Television
Who needs reality TV when you can revel in the decadence, dysfunction and dirty laundry of the fictional super-rich?
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Does Sarah Silverman Suck?
The raunchy, racy comedian makes us laugh and cringe.
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Ken Burns's War
His nostalgic PBS series casts WWII as acrucible of meaning. Too bad it lacked a tighter focus on the moral failure of combat.
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Olbermann Rules!
Marvin Kitman : Media Analysis
He's the guy who put the guts back into TV journalism.
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Mad Men's Retro Charm
A cable hit's unabashed attachment to filthy habits, bad parenting and horrendous gender roles shows how far we've come from the Sixties.
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The Sopranos' Last Song
With an ominous sense of foreboding, Tony Soprano takes his last drive down the Jersey Turnpike, after seven seasons and 86 bloody, sexy, curse-ridden episodes.
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Farewell, Tony and Carm
As we begin our final hour with Tony Soprano and his two families, it's hard not to feel a familiar sense of loss.
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The Simpsons Hit 400
Over eighteen seasons and three presidential eras, The Simpsons has paid badly animated homage to all that sucks in America.
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Katrina vs. Colbert
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen Colbert : Humor
Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on The Colbert Report to debate the host on the question of truthiness and much more.
2006
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Hooray for Right-Wing Hollywood
Max Blumenthal : Media Analysis
Right-wing culture warriors gathered in LA to praise ABC for its flawed 9/11 docudrama, talk up a conservative version of The Daily Show and release a thriller fueled by a nativist agenda.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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