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...decided to split up. Their son Lance was casually introduced into the gay social scene of Greenwich Village in what would remain one of the most matter-of-fact treatments of a homosexual TV "character" for decades. The series raised what seem like--in the Big Brother and MySpace era--quaint questions about how taping reality alters reality. But ethically justifiable or not, it remains one of the greatest documents of American life, American media and the steadily vanishing distinctions between...
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...list of the most influential shows misses the point of how people watch TV in the cable age: they watch networks--HGTV, ESPN, Nickelodeon--as much as they do shows. MTV, in the pre--Real World era, was the first network to teach viewers to watch this way. Quick-cut and compressed, music videos were not just a new way of selling music; they changed TV series (the pitch for Miami Vice was simply "MTV cops") and influenced movies (graduating directors like Spike Jonze, David Fincher and Michel Gondry). The best clips from MTV's all-video '80s heyday--from...
...political arena, miscalibrated speech can lead to more serious consequences than wine in the face or a slap on the forehead. In 1980, Wanda Brandstetter, a lobbyist for the National Organization for Women (NOW), tried to get an Illinois state representative to vote for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by handing him a business card on which she had written, "Mr. Swanstrom, the offer for help in your election, plus $1,000 for your campaign for the pro-ERA vote." A prosecutor called the note a "contract for bribery," and the jury agreed...
...with innuendo. If Brandstetter had said, "As you know, Mr. Swanstrom, NOW has a history of contributing to political campaigns. And it has contributed more to candidates with a voting record that is compatible with our goals. These days one of our goals is the ratification of the ERA," she would have avoided a fine, probation and community service...