Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Initially, neither bloggers nor mainstream media rushed to your defense en masse. Eventually, however, you gained support. Why the reluctance at first...
...think it was an attempt to intimidate the press - both independent and mainstream - and those who engage in civil dissent...
...think what happened was both the independent and mainstream press saw me as someone who was calling out that this was an issue simply for attention, that basically nothing was going to come of this and this was just a publicity ploy of sorts. They didn't see it as being a serious issue or that I was under any threat. Once they realized that the alarm was real, and it had a consequence, and that I wasn't being a town crier for no reason, they realized that it was time that we all start discussing this issue...
...another teen began devising moves to quickly get from one point to another to rescue someone or escape in an emergency. The sport, sometimes called free running, has been seeping into American consciousness in recent years via upwards of 25,000 YouTube clips as well as more mainstream forms of entertainment. Tony Heinz, 19, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, says he told his parents last year that he had started practicing parkour, but they didn't really get what he was talking about until more recently, when he asked if they had seen the James Bond...
Theoretically, American Idol should not exist. It's a broad-based mainstream hit when series like that are no longer supposed to be. It has gained viewers in its sixth season, a TV near impossibility. It sells albums, at a time when very little else does. And by awarding a record contract by nationwide vote, it is dedicated to a heretical idea in the niche-media age: that you can please most of the people most of the time...