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Classes on Michael Jackson or the poodle skirt are relatively rare in Harvard's hallowed halls, but a handful of faculty members focus their energies on MTV instead of Machiavelli, and analyze Coca-Cola advertisements rather than Cezanne...
Vaux, who is writing a book tentatively titled X-Speak: The Language of Young America, gets much of his material on what he calls the "MTV dialect" from television, radio and his students...
...MTV's real-life drama] "The Real World" isbest, because it's unguarded speech," he says...
...contentious, deliberation. The Clintonized town meeting has a rather less noble lineage. It is the offspring of Phil Donahue, who, true to his format, once wore a dress to enliven the proceedings. The President hasn't gone that far--not quite. But who can forget his town meeting on MTV in 1993? "Boxers or briefs?" asked a budding Walter Lippmann in the studio audience. The President could have turned the question aside. "Madam," he might have said, "that is a private matter between me and my interns." Or better: "Young lady, I am the President of the United States...
Once the episodes aired that December, I couldn't go anywhere on campus without being recognized by someone I didn't know. And even though "Idiot Savants" was canceled in the spring of 1997, I still owe the folks at MTV a debt of thanks for finally giving me the chance to make useful the useless things I knew. On the air, there were no mysteries, no shades of gray. Every question had an answer, every answer had a point value and at the end of the game, I knew just how much everything I knew was worth...