A lot of people feel this is such a dicey, contested territory, and they don't want to offend viewers, so they avoid it entirely,

There's nothing a professor likes better than imposing his opinion on as large a number of people as possible.

There are two things people love in America: attention and money.

Sometimes a performance is best experienced with other people. The real advantage of television - that theater and the movies don't have - is you're allowed to talk through it.

You can find volumes written about 'Citizen Kane' or 'The Wizard of Oz.' This movie has only been out for months … the response has been almost immediate. The Internet has opened up to anyone with a computer the opportunity to discuss and analyze in a way that used to be open to the very few who had access to publication media.

This story is way more interesting than the 70 up-close-and-personal feature stories that ran during the Olympics.