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Telltale Games releases first look at upcoming title, “The Walking Dead: Michonne”

The Walking Dead has become a multimedia success since its comic book debut in 2003. Written by Robert Kirkman and illustrate by Tony Moore, it has expanded into the territories of television (in which it finds itself as the highest-rated …

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The Walking Dead thrills fans with mid-season premiere.

The AMC original series, Walking Dead, returned to the screens Sunday night, nearly beating its own record at the ratings by managing to drag 15.8 million desperate fans to their television sets, dying to find out what is the next …

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The Infamy of TV Show Copycats

Oxygen’s Snapped has sparked an entirely new brand of insanity. The show chronicles a different woman each week. Going along with the show’s title, the women all “snap” and kill their significant others, friends, lovers, lovers significant others, and the …

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A Lesson From Honey Boo Boo:TLC Puts The “Real” Back Into Reality

“You’d better redneckognize!” is a phrase that one may initially imagine seeing on an off color gas station t-shirt or coffee mug. Alternatively, this phrase was marketed by little eight year old from Macon Georgia, Alana Thompson. Cable network TLC …

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Is Television Still a “Vast Wasteland”?

A “vast wasteland” was the description Newton Minow used for television programs in one of his landmark speeches. As President Kennedy’s chairman for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Minow used this metaphor to “tell broadcasters that the FCC would enforce …

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You’re Simply Not the Same in the Presence of the Camera

It’s just one of those things that stems in us from childhood. From the moment someone finds us too cute to be true and has to take a picture, the celebrity is born. We become someone else or a different …

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Sailing into a “Vaster Wasteland” of information

When you turn on the TV, what do you watch? Is it news, is it gossip, is it just the weather? Like many people today, you likely find yourself with over a thousand channels but never anything ‘good’ on to …

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Children and Television: Educational or Detrimental

Children and the amount of television they watch has always been an ongoing issue. Just like video games, many people suspect that both provide an easy access to violence and unfamiliar concepts. Is that all television is? Mindless violence? Or …

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A More Effective Use for Media in Politics

Recently in the United States, you cannot go through a single commercial break without hearing from a politician. Each commercial says something generic, usually about how they are “the better candidate” and “for America” and lists all of their positive …

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How Attentive Are You to the Effects of TV Shows?

There’s no denying the fact that media holds an immense amount of power. We live in a culture that is dominated by images and there is a constant pull, if you will, of social influence exerted daily. Take, for instance, …

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