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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
> Jezebel's Megan Carpentier catches up with FNC's Bill Hemmer at the FOX Experience, mostly because she thinks he is "completely cute." She writes, "Hemmer is kind of a combination of endearingly doofy and really smart." > The NYTimes' Alessandra Stanley is on the TV watch for the DNC. In summary: turn to C-Span for real gavel-to-gavel coverage; race has become "a tripwire topic;" and...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... Rupert Murdoch. The subject for part one was national security. How did Obama fare?According to Alessandra Stanley of the , "O'Reilly, as is his wont, spoke brusquely, interrupted, argued and didn't let his guest off th hook. He told Mr Obama he had 'bloviated' in parts of his convention speech, but congratulated him on his early opposition to the war, saying he had been 'perspicacious'."When...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Error-prone Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley made a mistake everyone! Because of an editing error, the TV Watch Column on Wednesday, comparing coverage of Senator Barack Obama’s trip overseas with...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
In this time of economic woe, those of us stranded in the middle and lower classes aren't circling the wagons, trying to protect what little stake we've left. Instead we're looking at those people far across the income gap—the fantastic private jet-having super rich—congratulating and emulating them and waving them to greener shores while we stand dumbly on the docks. Or so argues Alessandra...
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Bizblogger (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
NY Times writer Alessandra Stanley's take on Obama is representative of the fawning media coverage. From The Corner . [I]t's not pro-Obama bias in the news media that’s driving the effusion of coverage, it’s the news: Mr. Obama’s weeklong tour of war zones and foreign capitals is noteworthy because it is so unusual to see a presidential candidate act so presidential overseas. Mr. Obama...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
In Sunday's New York Times Alessandra Stanley offered an assessment of weight loss shows, discussing the extremity of the weights we see on TV. There are, Stanley notes, "supersized" contestants on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Shapely Prose (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
I wrote about Alessandra Stanley’s recent NYT piece on weight loss shows over at Broadsheet today. As always, Sanity Watchers warning x 10,000 applies to comments there (and there aren’t even any yet). Feel free to discuss here, though.
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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
I'm not sure what to make of Alessandra Stanley's recent piece on television programs about weight loss in the New York Times. It's essentially just a catalog of weight-related paradoxes she has observed: clothing sizes getting smaller while Americans get bigger, ads for Burger King flanking "Today" show segments on dieting, the viewer's tendency to empathize with "Biggest Loser" contestants...
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Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
I was astonished to learn that the number of TV shows about weight loss has ballooned to seven this season. Alessandra Stanley's superb report on them catalogs the cultural contradictions they're a part of: Americans are goaded into ever more...
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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Before I go join Drinking Liberally to watch tonight’s historic event, a few interesting items on race and the Democratic National Convention: - Writing in The New York Times earlier this week, Alessandra Stanley notes that while one first was celebrated, another was almost swept under the rug: “Tuesday night was tailored to pay homage to [...] [This is a content summary only. Click on...
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Amy's Robot (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
... and historic it is that the nominee is black--a point that no speaker has mentioned yet, as Alessandra Stanley writes in today's Times. So far, we've heard an awful lot about how much the Obamas are like everyone else in America, when some of the things that make Obama such an inspiring candidate are that he's relatively young, has spent time working directly with poor people, and...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
... In her Sunday New York Times article “ True or False: Everyone Looks 10 Pounds Guiltier on TV ,”Alessandra Stanley asserts that, like many a politician, Mr. Edwards was still trying to win over his audience. His poised, deliberately earnest and mildly combative posture seemed starkly incongruous with such statements as “It was my mistake,” and “My wife and my Lord have forgiven me.”...
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... star status, and his more cooperative sounding rhetoric was what the crowd wanted to hear." ... Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times rejects charges of pro-Obama bias with this doozy: "Mr. Obama's weeklong tour of war zones and foreign capitals is noteworthy because it is so unusual to see a presidential candidate act so presidential overseas." On "Meet the Press," NBC's Tom Brokaw...
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The Hot Joints (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
NY Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley wrote a shockingly ridiculous piece in today’s paper. Stanley rejected the claim that the media is pro-Obama, and said his trip overseas was only a big story because he already looks like he’s president. She went on to admire his confidence and “statesmanly restraint,” whatever the hell that is. But [...]
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Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Over at Newsbusters.org, Tim Graham writes that New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley does not believe that her paper favors Obama; rather: They merely noticed the fact that he is “supremely confident” and looks like he’s already president. He is displaying “classic Kennedy style” and practicing “statesmanly restraint.” McCain can’t complain about media bias because [...]
