Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the founding director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of the impact of entertainment on society. His uncommonly broad career has also spanned government and politics, the entertainment industry and journalism...
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That poster is a template to project so many different pairings with so many different meanings. It is an image that captures the imagination but begs to be remade.
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We don't think that we need to make that investment. We don't think that you need to own everything to provide these services.
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We're under the illusion that the lives, loves, mores and money of the rich and famous are more interesting, important and worthy of attention than our own. It's just another symptom of how messed up every aspect of our media-driven culture is.
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It's called the right-wing noise machine, and now you have one of the chief noise-makers being given the microphone and podium in the people's house.
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Until now, there was not evidence that the magazines, the tabloids, were taking proactive steps to protect Schwarzenegger.
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People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.
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Not only did they not go after him, as they might have in the past, not only did they publish something proclaiming him an American hero, but the new allegation is they paid someone hush money so her story would not be revealed during the campaign.