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Instead, networks are trying to capture the spirit of what makes the Web distinctive. Part of that, says Brian Graden, entertainment president of MTV Networks music group, is a first-person point of view. "If we do a Top 10 music-video list," he says, "it won't work as well as if we offer Snoop Dogg's list of his favorite Top 10." Short works best too--that quarterly planning meeting is in 10 minutes!--and maybe for that reason, comedy, which also relies less on impressive visuals, plays better than drama (though ABC is working on cell-phone...
...lieu of a conventional Endpaper, FM presents you with the highlights of this e-mail chain, started by nocturnal FM Associate Editor Sam Teller ’08. More than any first-person essay could ever do, the follow gives a colorful account of Reading Period in real time...
...RADIO: FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT These nuanced first-person accounts of life around the world present a carefully polished antidote to routine, rapid-fire radio news...
...Stones’ 1968 hit, “Sympathy for the Devil,” told in the first-person as Lucifer himself, links Beelzebub with Russia’s communist October Revolution. Not exactly the most endearing track to play for a bunch of ostensibly Maoist Chinese. “Under My Thumb,” on the other hand, might appeal to foot-binders and other social conservatives...
...Ambassador’s Son” is a first-person narrative about a bratty Russian ambassador’s son, whose penchant for booze and broads is surprisingly moving...