http://telephonoscope.com/2009/08/13/wipeout-cruelty-is-the-law-pervading-all-nature-and-society/ Talking back to the television Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://telephonoscope.com/2009/08/13/wipeout-cruelty-is-the-law-pervading-all-nature-and-society/#comment-30 Big, glossy, shiny, gloss-covered entertainment | Telephonoscope Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:27:07 +0000 http://telephonoscope.wordpress.com/?p=326#comment-30 [...] Nowhere was the commentary more apparent than in host Neil Patrick Harris, who did an admirable job thanks to his skill and suaveness but also his willingness to point to the new media elephants in the room. The show opened with vintage footage of television broadcast towers transmitting the nations’ vital news to each other, accompanied by an olde timey narrator. “Television. Useful science of the electronic age…Your instant connection to the most sophisticated entertainment the world has ever known.” As though the internet weren’t enough of a reason for that line to be funny, the video then cut to a shot from that sophisticated classic, Wipeout. [...] [...] Nowhere was the commentary more apparent than in host Neil Patrick Harris, who did an admirable job thanks to his skill and suaveness but also his willingness to point to the new media elephants in the room. The show opened with vintage footage of television broadcast towers transmitting the nations’ vital news to each other, accompanied by an olde timey narrator. “Television. Useful science of the electronic age…Your instant connection to the most sophisticated entertainment the world has ever known.” As though the internet weren’t enough of a reason for that line to be funny, the video then cut to a shot from that sophisticated classic, Wipeout. [...]

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