A journal of television and new media

Tag archive for ‘Deception’

To Watch a Predator

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

Do the suspects of Dateline: To Catch a Predator have any right to privacy, or can they be freely featured as part of the flow of network television?

<p></p><p>Seeing is Believing

Seeing is Believing

by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar

Critics of photography envisioned a world where people had consumed the image and thought they had experienced the thing itself. It seems they weren’t far off the mark.

<p></p><p>Let Me Tell You—

Let Me Tell You—

by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
What’s new, or at least notable by degree, is the attention being given to the portrayal of storytelling within broadcast network programming.

<p></p><p>Watching TV Poker

Watching TV Poker

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Andrejevic considers the cultural logic of the recent surge in televised poker tourneys.

<p></p><p>What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been

What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?

<p></p><p>We Are So Screwed: Invasion TV

We Are So Screwed: Invasion TV

by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Making sense of the supernatural on prime-time.

<p></p><p>Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of <em>The Daily Show</em>

Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of The Daily Show

by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Sham or not, The Daily Show remains deeply committed to its mission: “truthiness.”

<p></p><p>Soap in the Chocolate Bar

Soap in the Chocolate Bar

by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
Does Apple’s new iPod Nano represent greater freedom for digital music users?