Television Criticism

His writing is ok but when given his tv show he revealed himself a sellout by participating in filtering out every sentenses contravening to the dominant discourse, shmoozin with powerful people and "not asking difficult questions" to them like one of his guest Messier the CEO of the world's second largest media group : was caught on tape but not on air saying stuff like "it will be a glamour kind of interview" and proceeded to talked about trivial things like sanwiches and holes in soxes.

That's one of the many good proofs of "Enfin pris?" that Schneidermann is selling his show as a television criticism tv show but it's next to useless to get the job done. The documentary also show his double-standard when he is interviewing intellectuals depending if they are a threat to his bosses and his job or not and setting-up the structure of the show in consequence (ex by being 4 against one, talking all the time etc)

(to get them one have to install the proper p2p program to get the download started: it would work with edonkey but I suggest lphant instead.)

Pas vu, pas pris - Pierre Carles - FR VHS Rip.avi

La sociologie est un sport de combat - Pierre Carles - DivX FR VHS Rip.avi

Pierre Carles - Enfin Pris - Fr Divx Vhs Rip.avi

She does, but I think her writing is terrible.

Yanc3y writing about "The Wire" is the only good recent tv criticism I can think of.

APRIL 13, 2005: Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project is non-profit, open source, and built on open standards. Today we're announcing the project and releasing our current sourcecode. The software is launching in June.

participatoryculture.org

Subscribe to channels: videos download in the background and the player notifies you when they're ready to watch.

Which is the opposite of television. They're describing a very quick NetFlix there.

"television" is a pop word, that I think is applicable. Also, that project will surely evolve along with internet technologies, making the distinctions between traditional tv and net tv more subtle than they are now.

By developing collaborative techniques for producing this film, then this project can potentially provide some solutions for incorporating a broader range of voices and perspectives into the mainstream media.

http://www.echochamberproject.com/

TROY PATTERSON <3 <3 <3

Where The T.O. Show is almost comforting in its banality, Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design (A&E, Saturdays at noon ET) is mildly bizarre in its. It seems that the three-time Pro Bowler has developed a keen interest in interior decorating and launched a firm to express that interest. Committed to his aesthetic principles, Johnson must battle difficult clients who don't understand the importance of contrast or the potential of wallpaper. Especially passionate about window treatments, he talks with his index fingers about a cornice as if doing a postgame analysis of a cornerback. "The tufting is a bit much," he says of a sofa. What does that rug do the room, Keyshawn? "It brings everything together." At one point, he sends a subordinate on a slipcover-related mission with the parting words, "You need some help finding some places, just look at the navigation on the phone." The AT&T Navigator duly directs the kid to an establishment called Sofa U Love. Why did he not just call the store? Flag down. Offensive product placement—15-yard penalty.

yeah one of the best TV writers around today imo. really nice guy in person too.

do you guys all hang out

Can anyone point me to some good websites? I have no idea where to look, besides the generally weak TV Squad. The Onion AV Club can't be the only game in town.

Alan Sepinwall

He's pretty good! Any other suggestions?

Newt Minnow?

there's Videogum . . . which I don't read . . . but you might want to check it out? maybe?

ilx tv threads

I took a quick look at Videogum, and... not really what I'm looking for, in terms of the quality of writing.

loooool. understood

i like Alan Sepinwall, but he's part of the "30 Rock is unfunny now" crew that makes me all >:(

Steve Rubio writes regularly and thoughtfully about television.

i think i saw nathan rabin buying a burrito the other day, i don't know why i have the information required to recognize this either, and for a half second i thought it would be kind of funny if i just completely left normal society behind forever and started going off on him about 30 rock

or you know, if i just told some random bald guy that he needs to let someone who enjoys 30 rock review it

tim goodman's "spoiled bastard" is pretty good in an "i am secretly an aspiring script writer" way

hey can i ask a tuomasy question?

"the internet", tumblr, blogs, etc. are BRIMMING OVER with a very specific kind of screencap-trading fandom of TV, moments from shows, specific interactions, all captioned. for ex:

http://i.imgur.com/xNgLL.png

some of it is gifs too, obv, and also drawn from movies, but the things i'm thinking of seem TV-focused

what i'm wondering is: the style and layout of (a lot of) these things seems p strictly done, down to the fonts and all. where are these originating? who is putting these together? is it "twop" or w/e? C/D?

i feel like i've suddenly run into an internet practice in full bloom.

i think it's just kind of a (probably inevitable) outgrowth of screencapping becoming the default way to reproduce/share/riff on things from TV now that uploading anything from a major network to YouTube gets pulled pretty much automatically

you think so? i think these have an enjoyable brevity all their own. embedded yt's, let alone the non-yt clip services the networks use, are way more cumbersome than these multi-panel things.

reducing a minute-long stretch of TV to a comic strip! i feel like i could "watch" a whole episode of something this way tbh.

i dont know where the style really comes from but i think the "storyboard" comes from tumblr -- if you upload multiple images/gifs in one post they give you a couple ways to present them all

you think so? i think these have an enjoyable brevity all their own. embedded yt's, let alone the non-yt clip services the networks use, are way more cumbersome than these multi-panel things.

reducing a minute-long stretch of TV to a comic strip! i feel like i could "watch" a whole episode of something this way tbh.

― pvmic bellvm (goole), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

well i think sure it has levels of appeal that have probably contributed to the popularity of the practice, but i think the changing nature of using a big corporation's 'intellectual property' can still also be a big initial factor

the answer is livejournal. i'm sorry.

Somebody has to subtitle the caps, uploading or embedding a vid is way easier!

ahhhh, livejournal

HitFix started what looks a lot like a Pazz & Jop for TV:
http://www.hitfix.com/tvcriticspoll

Sherlock in the Top 10? Huh. I should get back to that series.

Thx for the link

i couldn't believe this when i found it but Clive James has put his own entire collected tv crit books online as they are out of print!
classy move http://www.clivejames.com/books/critichome

Sherlock so high because NYT put it at number 1. It was a...strange list.

HitFix started what looks a lot like a Pazz & Jop for TV

tubgirl.jpg

Huh. OK.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/06/24/barry_frost_lee_thompson_young_death_on_rizzoli_isles_how_showrunner_jan.html

a really medium-specific problem for tv, how to deal with the deaths of actors in ongoing productions

it's a sad story about that actor. also weird - he was in Flash Forward where his character committed suicide

In another depressing sign of the state of arts criticism, Rolling Stone just laid off Alan Sepinwall.

I would've assumed he was one of their most highly-read writers