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October 2, 2008

I will be writing about the vp debate tonight

Coming up at Z on TV: I will be writing about the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin from a TV standpoint right after the event.

Again, one of the goals of this blog is to explore the way in which reality is shaped, bent, folded and mutilated as it moves through the media machine and arrives on our screens. That includes TV turning politics into pop culture -- with tonight's debate as a prime example.

Posted by David Zurawik at 2:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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Z - if you're exploring the way TV is transmutes politics into pop culture, are you going to watch the DEBATE in the state that many who shape pop culture certainly will be; c'est a dire - totally liquored up? The Sarah Palin drinking games abound; an example: (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-99661). 'Course, if ya gotta T-total, there's the Sarah Palin bingo, which I'm SOOO on about (http://www.palinbingo.com). I'm sure that there's similar stuff for Biden, but I'm just wartching to see Palin go kerplopp!

Hi, thanks. You gave me the first good laugh of the day. But I have to tell, there is also something deeper in your remark, because you are the fourth or fifth person who told me they would be watching with a bottle or glass of something pressed to their lips -- and it would filled with alcohol. Any theories on why that is? I am honestly asking -- nothing rhetorical. I'm wondering. Thanks. Z

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008 2:48 PM

What a disappointment. Last night could have been the TV nighht of the year, but like champagne it lost its fizz not too long into the "debate." Maybe you jnow the answer to this - are the debaters allowed to bring "cheat sheets" with them to the podium? I asked this because that woman from the north kept looking down at the podium. If that is the case then the art of real debate usn't what it used to be.

Posted by: J. B. Hanson | October 3, 2008 6:41 AM

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About David Zurawik

I've been The Baltimore Sun's TV critic since 1989. My writings on TV and media have appeared in such publications as TV Guide, Esquire magazine and American Journalism Review. I have a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.A. in specialized reporting (on popular culture) from the University of Wisconsin. I'm the author of The Jews of Prime Time (Brandeis University Press), a look at 50 years of Jewish characters and identity on network TV. I have also been with WYPR-FM (88.1) radio since 1994 and can be heard Thursday mornings at 7:30 doing a weekly "Take on Television" report.

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