Decent blog from NYT's "The Medium" on The Onion, particularly the ONN.
The Medium
Broadcast Spoofs
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: April 20, 2008
The Onion mastered the sendup of print news. Has it done the same with video?
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TV Family: A Documentary
Click on the photo to visit the blog for my documentary, which is available through the Media Education Foundation.
How to Watch Television
I edited this collection of 40 original essays on different TV shows with Jason Mittell. Lots of great writing from an amazing list of contributors. Check out its Amazon page and "look inside" by clicking on the cover. While you're at it, visit the book's Facebook page where you will be able to find people sharing ideas for using the book in the classroom.
Parody and Taste...Now in Paperback.
Ten years in the making, this is my cultural history of (like the title says) postwar television and parody, including Mad Magazine, Playboy, Ernie Kovacs, Oscar Levant, Sick Comedy.
Satire TV
That's Stephen Colbert holding the book I co-edited with Jonathan Gray and Jeffrey P. Jones. Naturally, we put him on the cover. Includes a comprehensive introduction to television satire, my chapter on South Park, and much more...
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