Education 40 Years of Muppetology 101 How to get to Sesame Street? Take Wonk Way and turn left on Research Road. Tom Jacobs
Social Justice Suspense and Sports Television The prolific sports scholar Allen Guttmann suggests that the careful recording of stats is one of several defining… Sameer Pandya
Economics Is TV an Opiate for the Unhappy? Sadness and television viewing are correlated in new data analysis. Matt Palmquist
Economics Creasing the Celluloid Ceiling: More Female Roles on TV A greater percentage of TV characters are female, a new study notes, but it's still mostly guys offstage. Tom Jacobs
Social Justice Anchors Away for MSNBC Pair MSNBC has pulled the plug on its experiment of having liberal commentators Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews anchor… William Yelles
Economics Pulling the Plug on TV as We Know It Wilmington, N.C., is inundated in information as a test case for having all TV broadcasts in digital. Lewis Beale
Economics Men Dominate Olympics TV Coverage A new analysis of NBC’s prime-time Olympics coverage shows male athletes receive more air time than women, but… Tom Jacobs
Social Justice Oprah and the Downfall of American Society A journalism professor finds a straw woman on daytime TV and, in the name of scholarship, knocks her right down. Tom Jacobs
Economics Nation Not Yet Tuning in Digital Television The digital television transition is under way, but so far it is not going smoothly. Now the presumed… William Yelles
Economics TV Can Turn Public’s Dial Research suggests entertainment programming on television can and does influence viewers' opinions on public policy issues. Tom Jacobs