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...entertainingly and quickly. News producers, documentarians--and, yes, magazine writers--selectively edit raw material and get accused of cherry-picking facts and quotes. But on an entertainment show the pressure to deliver drama is high, and the standards of acceptable fudging are shadier. The first season of Laguna Beach, MTV's reality series about rich teens in Orange County, Calif., centered on a love triangle among two girls (LC and Kristin) and a boy (Stephen). The problem, says a story editor who asked not to be named, was that the triangle didn't exist. LC and Stephen, he says, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reality TV Fakes It | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

...month price tag. It hasn't raised the price, though it has increased the amount of content available. There may not be live programming, but there's constantly refreshed content from some big names that Sprint doesn't yet have. CBS and the whole Viacom stable - Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 - as well as Nascar.com and Accuweather.com. Speaking of the weather, Verizon's local coverage is not very good: Although it has both Accuweather and the Weather Channel, between them the the two only cover 21 cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showdown: Sprint Power Vision vs. Verizon Wireless V Cast | 1/26/2006 | See Source »

...What does it take to get a person on the street to tell a cute hand puppet to ____ off? This and other imponderables were answered by this twisted kids'-show parody, inexplicably relegated to MTV's satellite channel, orbiting the frozen outer reaches of digital cable. From man-on-the-street interviews by an obnoxious puppet to an adorable child asking a butcher, "Who's going to pay for these steaks... I mean, spiritually?" this show is a hilarious, disturbing trip far away from Elmo's World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Television | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...Hell’s Winter” was released this fall on underground arbiter Definitive Jux Records (home to indie heavyweights Aesop Rock and RJD2), and with a new glossy video on MTV, Cage is riding the underground hip-hop wave like few others...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rapper Cage Breaks Loose | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...while, it seemed even her five-octave range and chart-topping history couldn't save MARIAH CAREY from a career meltdown. When her 2001 movie Glitter became synonymous with box-office bust and her public behavior began to include such acts as an impromptu striptease on MTV, Carey's record company paid her a reported $28 million just to go away. But a Carey comeback that started with this year's second-best-selling CD, The Emancipation of Mimi, has crescendoed with the singer earning eight Grammy nominations for Mimi and the single We Belong Together. "This year has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 2005 | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

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