Rebel Taxi's review of The Nutshack is all you need to understand it. He does a great job of tracking down its inception, general feel of the series and why it looks so repulsive.
https://youtu.be/2zS92PrVFrY

Laser Time podcast does something called 30-20-10 that goes back 30, 20, and 10 years in the past in pop culture and discuss what's changed. It's always worth a listen to see how things like the Challenger explosion affected television and etc.
http://www.lasertimepodcast…

Ebert does a better job explaining the rationale than I ever could:

If only concepts like optics and PR were as widespread among activist circles as privilege and intersectionality.

A D+? I love post apocalypse movies, but no way am I going to sit through 2/3rds of another movie just to watch Shia eat dogfood for the remaining third.

To be generous, she's acting against Knudsen, Hopkins, Wright, and Harris. She's also got the handicap of debuting late in the season after the bar has been set so high.

Here's the top five by engagement for the Buzzfeed averse. Their data is in a google doc you can view here, though: https://docs.google.com/spr…

After a certain age some sad group of men's reading is limited to video tags from streaming porn sites.

Almost a third of counties who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 turned to Trump last night. We can't blame that on racism. That's a reductive answer which does more harm than good for 2020.

Now I'm starting to worry that I'm just as guilty of being part of a confirmation bias seeking echo chamber. For the past two months NYT's homepage had Clinton's chance of winning squarely between 70 to 92 percent. Nate Silver threw up warning signs, but I went along with the consensus that it was clickbait.

The mistake was treating Trump like the joke that he was and not like the fascist dictator he could certainly become.

I'm actually taken aback by how Edie's death is being used as an example of fridging. Her death and how it was setup that one of the three main characters seemed to be an example of subverting that trope. She's killed by a random projectile and the one who killed her was a random zombie, not some villain being setup…

There's a part in MoS where Zod kicks a gas tanker into Superman. Superman just hops over it like "Pretty sweet flip, huh?" while the gas tanker slams into the parking lot behind him, explodes, and topples the entire building and whoever was inside it to the ground.

That I wholeheartedly agree with. Gawker's ambition was in the right place. That made the hubris to publish celebrity sex tapes and outing civilians because they work for a rival news publisher all the more galling.

You think the Washington Post would have posted the Pussygate story if rumors were all they had to go on? If gossip meets your standard of truth than I don't know what to say to you.

I'm still waiting. Publishing gossip isn't muckraking.

They don't deserve sympathy, but they have the same right to privacy as you do. Just because you're famous doesn't give another person permission to publish your sex tape.

You're going to give some examples of that fine muckraking, right?

Ok, what were those muckraking articles?

They could've, but they didn't.