Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. October 9, 2009. Why TV is ground zero for understanding American culture -- the 9 best shows on air that you should be watching.
Alan Farago, CounterPunch. August 3, 2009. Cable TV is better in tune with the zeitgeist than government, showing viewers the real world: cratered housing market and horrible jobs market.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. July 10, 2009. The Marijuana Policy Project has a TV ad campaign supporting taxing marijuana, but several stations won't run it.
Jeffrey Jones, Jonathan Gray, Ethan Thompson, NYU Press. May 9, 2009. Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life.
Sal Renshaw, Ms. Magazine. March 11, 2009. There have been a lot of shout-outs to feminism on the "L Word", albeit not a consistent feminist politics that will please everyone.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 5, 2009. For the first time, more people are getting their news from the Internet than from print sources.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. November 28, 2008. Maybe I'm imagining things, but has anyone else noticed more allusions to female masturbation on TV?
Emily Udell, In These Times. August 15, 2008. A chemical used in the manufacturing of flat-screen televisions could rival some of the world's most potent greenhouse gases.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. August 8, 2008. Another day, another alarmist report by the PTC decrying immorality on television.
Ari Melber, TheNation.com. April 2, 2008. Big Think seeks to smarten up the Internet by getting up close and intellectual with the most creative thinkers alive.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Video. March 26, 2008. WTF is wrong with the Tonight Show host? Has he so little creativity that he has to stoop to lame humor like this over and over?
Larisa Alexandrovna, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. February 25, 2008. Are they trying to tell us that a glitch in New York ONLY happened in Alabama and ONLY during the Don Siegelman segment? Are you kidding me?
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 18, 2008. Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Josh Brolin and many more join Howard Zinn to celebrate some of America's frequently overlooked heroes.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. February 15, 2008. Something so simple and yet so hard for so many people to understand: A word's meaning derives from its context.
Jesse Wendel, Group News Blog AlterNet: Video. January 1, 2008. The deal included the entire MBA. Everything the the WGA had on the table--where the AMPTP left it when they walked out 25 days ago.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Video. December 6, 2007. Melissa McEwan: "The View" co-host goes apeshit about the idea of her son wearing a dress in her house.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. December 5, 2007. Amanda Terkel: Too bad ABC executives don't take the advice of their own shows more seriously.
