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Leslie Savan

Leslie Savan blogs for The Nation about media and politics. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for her Village Voice column about advertising, Savan is the author of Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and, Like...Whatever and The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture. She has been widely published, including in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, Mother Jones, and Huffington Post. She has appeared frequently on TV and radio, and is very happy to be a talking head in Helvetica, a film about the font.

Articles

News and Features

Glenn Beck's Own End Times Foretold (US Politics, Media)

Keeping Beck on might have complicated the Fox-GOP industrial complex’s ability to use government power on behalf of the moneyed interests.

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Olbermann's Suspension Was the Worst Person(nel Decision) in the World (US Politics, Media)

Keith Olbermann's suspension from MSNBC was only the most recent in a series of corporate disciplinary actions against journalists that usually redound to the right’s favor.

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Tasing Rick Sanchez: Jon Stewart's Jokes and CNN's Double Standards (US Politics, Media Analysis)

The cool kid bullied the uncool kids in the Stewart/Sanchez affair, while CNN, like a cowed principal, ran from the crossfire.

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Blogs

Well, La-Tee-Da: Congress Fixes Furloughs in Time to Fly Home for Weekend, Lets Everyone Else’s Pain from the Sequester Fester
Air traffic controllers are back on the job, but a host of other issues haven't been solved.
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The Media and the 'Dark-Skinned' Men from Chechnya
Why we're fixated on the ethnicity and religion of the Boston bomb suspects.
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A Tale of Two Joes: Biden Praises Scarborough on Gun Control
In a blast of blarney, Biden gives Scarborough an ego boost and a possible campaign ad.
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Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-...
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Ten Years Later, NPR Still Lets War Hawks Make Pathetic Excuses
The sins of omission in interviewing neocons Richard Perle and Stephen Hadley.
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Fast Times at MSNBC
Chris Hayes moves up, Ed Schultz moves over and the man who taped the Romney “47 percent” video moves into the light. 
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Cognitus Interruptus on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
Why mainstream media pundits keep punting.
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Hannity’s Brand: Slap Ellison, Defend Woodward and Always Mislead
Desperate to seem relevant again, the Fox host has been trying his best to manufacture news. 
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