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corybarker.bsky.social
Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger. Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS
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We have to stop Pat McAfee

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The latest TV PLUS works through a really disappointing WrestleMania season that still has a chance to conclude with great matches.

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The latest TV PLUS works through a really disappointing WrestleMania season that still has a chance to conclude with great matches.

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One of @corybarker.bsky.social's students found this Kid Nation article I wrote 18 years ago and I told him to tell the student that I only wrote it because "angry Jericho fans were my only source of blog traffic," before realizing every word of this would provide only more questions.

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This is an ALL-TIME bad PR week leading up to WWE's biggest event of the year. They might as well invite Vince back.

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Another day as a supporter of the Chelsea Football Club

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I am so pissed off about this

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New ep of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social from me: I talked to Anne Korfmacher about her great book FAN PODCASTS.

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New ep of NEWS OVER NOISE: We chat with @davey.bsky.social and @leonyin.org about their @bloomberg.com reporting on right-wing "lifestyle" podcasters: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/the...

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It's a wrap!

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I wrote about Jesse Lacey and Brand New: defector.com/brand-new-to...

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Shut up! Shut the hell up!

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Alan's rundown of this mess is much more thoughtful and comprehensive but I do stand by my immediate post-episode reaction of "woof"

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Me convincing myself that White Lotus is good yet again

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FOLKS

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So weird. Mike White always seemed very regular to me.

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Nightmarish travel circumstances mean I won't make it to Chicago after all, but we still had a great chat in B2. Thanks for everyone's good questions! #scms25

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Good luck to folks (me) trying to get to Chicago today for #scms25 with endless flight delays.

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New episode of NEWS OVER NOISE: We talked with @theframelab.bsky.social's @gilduran.com about the news media's tendency to frame DJT as a strongman, even though he's a big baby newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/cal...

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The latest edition of TV PLUS is mostly a cry for help.

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Truly one of the best to ever do it.

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Another #SCMS25 teaser:

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What a #SCMS25 teaser

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This is such a great take. Theorize your heart out. But you have to accept the information shows give you, too.

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TRUE DETECTIVE S1: - the primacy of the limited series, starting here, has scrambled the industry’s brains such that I don’t know that they know how to do longform anymore - A-listers in gritty murder mysteries - no writers room (which WAS bad for this show, but also kind of key to its appeal)

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The big guy. He's HIM

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With billions being bet during March Madness, it's worth thinking about how sports journalism has shifted its role to feed the new place for sports in society. On the latest episode of News over Noise, we sat down with Bil King of the Sports Business Journal to talk about it. tinyurl.com/yp59y8f5

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Agree. Maybe just shoot me an email and say you liked it!

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Pretty kind of the NCAA to get the embarrassing Purdue upset out of the way early

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The Atlantic *would* set up a narc line under the guise of protecting authors and then use "JK Rowling" as the example.

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These are the kind of goofball bundles we need. I should get ESPN+ for ordering Cane's every week!

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A new ep of NEWS OVER NOISE exploring gambling coverage in sports journalism with SBJ's Bill King is here.

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