Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though her subject matter may be overwhelmingly diverse, in reality Orlean has continued to pursue the same line of inquiry that started her off on her career: to learn about people and places that aren’t mainstream. “It seems a really wonderful mission to try to bring people out of their own worlds and encourage them to at least sample another world that they don’t have much in common with,” Orlean said...
...their work is often dubbed “outsider” art—makes their work difficult to talk about. But we should try to talk about it anyway, both because the work is highly interesting in its own right, and because its location outside the mainstream art world can provide those of us within the establishment with a much-needed reality-check...
...It’s tempting, then, to compliment Consalvos’ work by calling it years ahead of its time (Consalvos worked between 1910 and 1940). But one of the major traps of dealing with “outsider” art is that in welcoming it into the mainstream (no matter how well-meaning our efforts to legitimize it may be) there is a real danger that we will lose sight of the qualities that make it special in the first place...
Official blogs are the polar opposite. Where people like Christopher Allbritton are trying to transcend mainstream media (with a fraction of their resources), official blogs are attempting to repackage them. Of the three major American 24-hour news outlets—MSNBC, CNN and Fox—two have dedicated staff members to permanent blogs (CNN is still lacking in this regard). Fox in particular devotes a substantial section of its website to its daily selection of five or six blogs. They seem to be mainly targeted at generating interest in Fox’s various news-talk shows...
...Chris Missick is one of these people. His blog, set in Iraq and entitled A Line in the Sand, is a soldier’s take on the war. In Missick’s case, it’s a slightly jaded take, as his blog convincingly argues that mainstream media are missing the real, positive stories in the country in their zeal to sensationalize the war and negate America’s achievements. As he wrote in an email to me: “Our soldiers in Najaf fought for hours on end to retrieve an exploded, deadlined?...