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Tag: Media Influence

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Me, Mom and Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore, one of television’s true legends, died yesterday at the age of 80. She became a star as Laura Petrie, the beautiful, charming

Culture

Culture Clips: PG-13 Gun Violence Soars

If you’ve been to a PG-13 action movie lately, you might have thought, Man, it sure seems like there’s a lot of violence for a

Culture

Culture Clips: The Peak TV Edition

Yes, 2017 still has its New Year smell. Nothing’s gone critically amiss yet, and we still have a little breathing room to ponder what happened

Learning to Read Again

I love books. But lately—with lately meaning, oh, the last decade or so—a truer statement might be this: I like the idea of books. I

Culture

Down the ‘Portable Rabbit Hole’

There’s a lot of stuff on the internet. But every now and then, I’ll come across something that just flat stops me in my tracks.

Culture

MTV’s 2016 VMAs: Nothing to See Here

The Monday morning after MTV’s Video Music Awards has often been a cultural watercooler moment in a culture that has fewer and fewer of those

Culture

When Celebs Seize the Bully Pulpit

How do you respond when a celebrity accepting an award uses that opportunity to preach a mini-sermon? I don’t know about you, but I immediately

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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