The Daily Show

Here is a real short article about the Daily Show...

Current Events: April 27

D'OH! I had a very busy Sunday and forgot to update my blog. The posting and quiz will now both be Tuesday. If you are reading this on Sunday, you might as well get it out of the way!

I know you guys are sick of me posting about 3D, but can 3D make you sick?

This is a long article (and important to what we talked about in class). Due to the fact that it is so long, we will only have two article this week!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Daily Show

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Writers Guild of America Strike

In order for you to know more about the Writers Guild of America strike, I am posting a link to the wikipedia page relating to the strike. While I found articles to post about the strike, I thought that the wikipedia page had more useful information that the article.
You DO NOT need to read the entire article-- it is long. Instead of reading the entire thing, please read the following Sections:

1. Issues in the strike
4. Effect on television
5. Response

Please post a 2 paragraph response illustrating demonstrating knowledge obtained from the reading. This blog post is worth 25 points and is due at the start of class Tuesday, April 20th.
Here is an interesting video from the writing staff of the office during the strike.

Current Events: April 19th

Here are the currents events articles for this week. Please remember to post a two paragraph response to one of the articles before class. There will be a quiz on Monday!

Playstation is releasing a controller to compete with the Wii.

This is an interesting article about Conan O'Brien- a glimpse into his personal life.

Wiz Khalifa is in the news. I think this short article really hits on the future of the music industry.

Here is a very short article about an upcoming movie that I am very excited about...

Current Events: 4/12/10

Here are the current events readings for this week. As usual, there will be a quiz on Monday and you must post a two paragraph response about the article by the start of class.

Treme is a new show on HBO. It has received rave reviews and looks to be very interesting.

Iron Man 2 will be released soon. According to this article, it might be extremely high grossing!

This is a long article about 3-D technology and how it is changing theaters as we know it.

Current Events: 4/5/2010

Here are this week's current events articles. There will be a quiz and you must post a comment by the start of class Tuesday.

This article discusses the attempt to reclaim the "family sitcom"- it even mentions Nate's favorite show- Full House .

Sick of waiting for Glee? This article is about the long breaks that many shows take between the fall premier and their spring premier.

The iPad was released on Saturday. I didn't get one, but my friend Evan did. It was estimated that Apple sold 650,000 iPads just on Saturday. This article explains why this could be a world-changing product.