Word: channelized
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...There is, however, a car-country answer to Queer Eye: the car-and-bike makeover show. Discovery Channel's American Chopper, MTV's Pimp My Ride and several others turn junkers into sleek street machines and motorcycles into works of art, and in the process tell us how people (mostly men) express and define themselves through their stuff. They're Queer Eye, the shop-class version: the Gear...
...suppose he's right. I also hope, though, that Pimp's viewers - watching a channel increasingly dedicated to the idea that a car, or a mansion, or a new pair of breasts, is the ticket to fulfillment - realize there are cheaper routes to self-esteem. "We're about to put $20,000 into a $900 car," a craftsman boasts as he rebuilds a pathetic Mitsubishi Mirage for Antwon, a 19-year-old art student. The gleaming, finished car is hilariously over the top (it includes a built-in fish tank), and Antwon is delighted. But I have to wonder: Wouldn...
...games this year, we’ve been very excited and we’ve played on a lot of adrenaline,” McKenna said. “But I think the reason we lost some of the earlier games in the season was an inability to channel that energy and maintain our focus even when we got down. Against Yale, the defense was able to control the game in the last 10 minutes, and our defensive players just remained vocal and refused to accept the possibility that we might lose the game...
Murdoch's critics are certainly legion. Most of them are fixated, in this election year, on Fox News and its conservative agenda. But in terms of Murdoch's real influence--not to mention his bottom line--nothing emanating from Roger Ailes' cable channel remotely compares to News Corp.'s $6.6 billion takeover of satellite broadcaster DirecTV. The deal, approved by regulators in December, extends Murdoch's globe-spanning satellite empire to North America; bolsters his strategy of marrying distribution and content; and seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape...
...News succors Republicans, its true significance is broader: it points to a future in which media are more targeted and more blatant about their biases. It's too early to know if Al Franken's stab at liberal radio will thrive or if Al Gore's liberal cable channel will ever get off the ground, but both are Murdoch ricochets, for better or for worse...