Hi Allison, Sorry to be a little late to the contributing party here. This is a really fascinating tidbit in broadcasting history; I'd never heard of this until you mentioned it. I've got a few questions about MPATI and its reception: 1) Was thi ...
I'm actually encouraged by the possibilities of this video, to be honest. Yes, the acting & the skit itself are, to be kind, marginal (can Tim Allen sue for libel?), and it's nakedly propagandistic (woo-hoo, a Wal-Mart moved in, and without ...
Interesting snippet, Vicky; first time I've seen even a snippet of "Rockford" as far as I can recall. I'm struck in part by the answering machine at the opening, emphasizing both Rockford's absence from the personalized office spa ...
The race against the clock definitely contributes to the drama; watching Atkinson catch the pass and dribble down the court as the seconds race away in the bottom of the screen still makes me hope he makes it in time. And I already *know* the outcome. One ...
Hi Mark, Thanks for the response! I agree that the lost/romanticized public sphere Burns (and others, clearly) celebrate is a significantly oversimplified one... but I also think it's increasingly appealing precisely because of its simplicity, as we ...
Hey Allison, Thanks for the great comments! I'm wrestling with words as I try to respond... hopefully the following will make some sense: I think the discourse of authenticity has become prominent in part because it's a fairly easy and convenien ...
Two quick (honest!) comments, as I need to leave my office; will think about this more on the drive home & respond more cogently later:-One of the interesting aspects of the RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program is that it's been extant ...
... and I'm back. The more I think about it, the more I think Vicky's comment about race and authenticity with regard to the urban geography of minor-league ballparks and fan bases is really spot-on. It's possible that this dynamic may be ev ...
Hey Vicky, I definitely agree about the extraordinary visibility of race, labor, and gender in sport, and the way in which television & media invite us to build collective and individual identities around those representations. I had been thinking mos ...
Missed this in the first reply- do you mean the World Baseball Classic (which MLB inaugurated in '06 as a quadrennial Olympic-style event)? If so, the word "classic" is really telling-- MLB was trying to evoke both a sense of timelessness a ...
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Hi Allison, Sorry to be a
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Interesting snippet, Vicky;
The race against the clock
Hi Mark, Thanks for the
Hey Allison, Thanks for the
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Hey Vicky, I definitely
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