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Category Archives: media culture
no tv today
today we (that is my mum and i) made up our mind to have our television set repaired. finally. it is not really broken, but has been acting weird since spring and it drove me really nuts during le Tour … Continue reading
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weird world
two news items of the 17:00 h GMT edition of le journal (tv5) caught my attention today: “Allergie : une société américaine crée le chat hypoallergénique” and “Jeu vidéo : l’assassinat du président Kennedy reconstitué”. i find the idea of … Continue reading
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brainiac
yet another absolutely weird tv show: brainiac. i stumbled across it accidentally (as always) while channel surfing this afternoon. it’s supposed to be a science show – sort of at least – where “brainiacs” blow things up, make strange experiments … Continue reading
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american idiot
green day’s new album is out for a few weeks now but i’ve never seem to get hold of the video – until now. i have been a fan of green day since their 1994 album “Dookie”. the first single … Continue reading
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profitez de la vie
something i wanted to post for a while now but never got around doing it: the french health service is promoting free flu shots for people older than 65 as a preventive measure and they produced two television commercials that … Continue reading
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reality television, again
reality television takes another leap ahead. i have been quite ignorant when it comes to this emerging genre but now it caught my attention. why do people watch ten celebrities camping in the jungle diving into tanks full of worms, … Continue reading
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halloween in europe
what is the sudden hype with Halloween here in good ol’ Europe? don’t get me wrong, i have nothing against Halloween, it surely is a great festivity and an American tradition. so here is what bothers me: why do we … Continue reading
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room raiders
today i found yet another example of the so-called “perverse landscape of the media”. again, a show of MTV managed to catch my attention while channel-surfing. it is called “Room Raiders” and took “socially accepted voyeurism” to the next level. … Continue reading
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le journal sur tv5
i enjoy watching “le journal” (i.e. the news) on tv5 as i mentioned a few days ago. usually i do not like watching the news because the anchors are mostly middle-aged men or women. but tv5 is different — big … Continue reading
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bloody lundi
i hate mondays. i do not know why or when it started, but i guess it goes back to when i was still in school. it is the beginning of a new week with new problems and new tasks at … Continue reading
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