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Multi
In the world of journalism, the prefix of the hour is multi: multimedia, multiplatform. A journalist friend of mine who spent a couple decades working for an Italian news agency as a reporter and then as a foreign correspondent, has just been promoted to head its new multiplatform web development team in Rome, where he’ll experiment with....
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The Battlestar Galactica Finale
The artistic achievement that is Battlestar Galactica, now consummated in the two part finale, “Daybreak,” is the fruit of two ideas, both born in the brain of its showrunner, Ronald D. Moore. The first is the show’s unifying aesthetic....
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The Common Viewer
To claim that television drama has obtained a slightly higher perch on Mt. Parnassus is no longer controversial. A slew of series in the last ten years have demonstrated the artistic potential of a medium that is (understandably) viewed with suspicion by many writers: The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, et al....
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Handful of Dust
On Ash Wednesday, there will be no canonical controversy as to whether Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden may walk up to the altar and receive ashes on their foreheads. Anyone may receive the ashes in a Catholic Church, which does not preclude those outside of Her communion doing so. Of course, many Protestant churches have adopted....
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No Logo
I can’t quite pin down why I can’t stand Pepsi’s new “Refresh Everything” [http://www.refresheverything.com/] ad campaign, which makes commercial use of the nation’s bad luck and blue mood by making happy, colorful signs with positive words on them. Every morning, I walk past
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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