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Why Is Incest All Over Prime Time?

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. December 21, 2011.

From "Dexter" to "Game of Thrones," incest resonates -- not because a taboo has been broken, but because it endures.

8 Obnoxious Cliches about Men, Women and Sex in Otherwise Good TV Shows

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. November 24, 2011.

As television becomes more daring, there are still many basic feminist ideas that read as taboo on the small screen.

Fetuses in Prime-Time? How Right-Wingers Are Exploiting a Loophole to Get Anti-Choice Propaganda on the Air

Tim Murphy, Mother Jones. November 17, 2011.

Anti-abortion activists recruited by Randall Terry plan to saturate major media markets with graphic anti-abortion images.

Occupy TV Ads? The Branding of Occupy Wall Street

Justin Elliott, Salon. November 13, 2011.

Last week, the first Occupy Wall Street TV ad began airing on channels including Fox News and ESPN. Here's what the director of the ad has to say about it.

How Television Can Make You Believe Things That Aren't True

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. October 12, 2011.

Newly published research suggests nuggets of misinformation embedded in a fictional television program can seep into our brains and lodge there as perceived facts.

The Cable TV Access Crisis

Eric K. Arnold, AlterNet. August 7, 2011.

With over 100 public and educational channels disappearing since the mid-2000s, we need to have a big rethink about quality public-access TV.

Why the Biggest Energy Suck in Your House May Have to do With Your TV

Joshua Frank, AlterNet. July 13, 2011.

That little cable box sitting atop your television set is likely the largest single source of electrical waste in your entire household.

'Buffy' and 'Dollhouse': Visions of Female Empowerment and Disempowerment

Angela Zhang, PopMatters. April 11, 2011.

Buffy has been acclaimed as great TV feminism, where Dollhouse has been routed for the opposite. But have critics of the latter been too quick to dismiss its feminism?

Study: How Our Alarmist TV News Makes People Overly Paranoid About Cancer

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune Magazine. February 7, 2011.

A new study shows that people who watched local TV news reports were likely to have a fatalistic attitude about cancer prevention.

A Group of Workers Corporate America Claimed Were Impossible to Organize Win Key Union Votes

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. January 10, 2011.

Many of the freelancers who create your favorite TV shows have been toiling in white-collar sweatshops.

True Blood: Sex, Gore, and Abortions Performed by Spellcraft

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. September 2, 2010.

The show takes an interesting turn when a conservative character doesn't want to have a murderer's baby.

What It's Like to Have an Abortion in Texas: TV Shows Finally Grappling with Realities Women Face

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. July 15, 2010.

As states pass record numbers of abortion restrictions, TV and film go to the abortion clinic, with varying results.

We're Living in a Theater State -- Plug in and Be Lit up by the American Hologram

Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. May 16, 2010.

TV and movies keep us in an entertained stupor, awed, mislead, and most importantly, distracted.

Has F/X Hit the Jackpot With Racy New Animated Series 'Archer'?

Eileen Jones, eXiled Online. February 16, 2010.

It's a spoof of the James Bond-type spy genre, which doesn't sound too good, but never underestimate what Adam Reed of Sealab 2021 can do with moldy genre spoofs.

The Commercial Super Bowl: Voyeuristic Horndogs, Hot Babes, Flatulent Slackers, and God's Quarterback Star in the Big Game

Robert Lipsyte, TomDispatch.com. February 6, 2010.

Whatever happens, the Tim Tebow controversy has put the game’s spotlight back where it belongs -- on the advertising.

Against Closure: Why "Lost" Creators Should Resist the Urge to Tell All

Graham Hillard, Killing the Buddha. February 2, 2010.

The problem is that a program whose guiding principle has been the introduction and prolonging of suspense cannot easily lay suspense aside -- and it shouldn't.