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Awards Season Ennui

Sarah Tomlinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah Tomlinson

The Golden Globes are Sunday. Yawn. And I can't say that I'm all that much more excited for the Academy Awards. Why am I feeling so blasé this year? And why do I get the sense I'm not alone?

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A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patrick Takahashi

Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.

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