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...that wink-that is, the Fox gestalt of insouciance, attitude, and even playfulness-has had a bigger effect on the news media than any Bill O'Reilly rant. Fox taught TV news that voice, provocation and fun are not things to be afraid of. And for better or worse, probably every TV news program outside of PBS has been Foxified by now. The explosive graphics on your newscast: that's Fox. The "freeSpeech" opinion segments on the new CBS Evening News: that's Fox, too. Anderson Cooper yelling at a FEMA official or crusading in Africa: that's Fox. Keith...
...bring that up because I sense the media are ignoring the true American family and instead are putting the dramas of affluent families on Page One. It would be O.K. if they delivered those portraits with a sardonic wink, so that we might laugh at the foibles of the well-off. But there is no wink. In the eyes of the media, we all buy Baby Einstein...
...When the show opened, Idle was exactly twice as old as he was when MP&HG was shot back in '74. If the old saying is true - that we become what we once mocked - then the Idle of Spamalot isn't too far from the "wink-wink, nudge-nudge" pub character in the early Flying Circus days. He wants everyone in the theater to get it, get it? This is clear from the show's brief overture, with oompah tubas and tiptoeing xylophones practically poking the audience in the ribs to announce what follows will be musical comedy stopping just...
...bring this up because I sense the media is increasingly ignoring the true American family, and instead is putting the dramas of affluent families on Page One. It would be okay if they delivered these portraits with a sardonic wink, so that we might laugh at the foibles of the well-off. But there is no wink. Instead, we are asked to sympathize with people's self-made problems, and these affluent-family issues are held up as representative...
...Pennsylvania. He says the U.S. is too tied up elsewhere in Iraq to open a new front in the north. More likely, Turkey will be permitted to take matters into its own hands, though not necessarily by sending troops across the border. "I think the U.S. would give a wink and a nod if Turkey were to take limited military action ... General Ralston is going to hold Turkey's hand," says Barkey, "not solve the problem." The p.k.k., meanwhile, claims not to be worried about the U.S.'s new interest in its affairs. p.k.k. political chief Aydar says that...