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...which grow louder the more bitterly split the electorate gets. But there's also the problem that many big-media journalists are now cautious, well-paid conformists distant from their audiences and more responsive to urban elites, powerful people and megacorporations--especially the ones they work for. Hence the bland news anchors who verge on self-parody; magazines so commercial they're practically catalogs; timid pack journalism (We love dotcoms too! I mean, we never believed in them either!); local newscasts shilling for their corporate parents ("Up next: the hottest Survivor finale parties! Plus, the rest of the news!"); saturation...
...songs on a late summer 2002 tour and then record them in a single two-week session. Yorke agreed and subsequently turned over three CDs of unstructured acoustic recordings of new songs to his bandmates. "He was really careful to give us stuff that was as neutral and as bland as possible," says bassist Colin Greenwood, "so that we would be able to work together on providing music...
Below are several of Silverman’s tips for saving space and money while spicing up a bland apartment...
...group uses ethnic instruments like bongos and djembes to complement more common percussion instruments, creating a “delightful bland of the tribal and theatrical,” says Kyle J. Berkman ’06. But they are perhaps best known for their creative use if everyday items, influenced by shows like Stomp and “Blue Man Group...
These are good ideas--often better than their execution. Fingaz, of rap group Onyx, is authentic and intense as the bad boy, but the brothers' Goofus-and-Gallant dichotomy needs to be less, well, black-and-white, and the supporting players are bland. Platinum is influenced by rap video (lots of slo-mo and bling bling), maybe too much--it trusts our attention spans so little that it repeats flashes of scenes that ran minutes before. But in the first episode, the show is adventurous and provocative enough to deserve a chance. In an easy-listening TV season, Platinum...