Terms: reality shows
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• Arts > Music > Pop > Boyle, Susan
• Social Studies > Current Events > Politics > USA
• Social Studies > Economics > Economy

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1. -Editorial: Susan Boyle Bigger than the Super Bowl? (Time.com)
   "In my TIME essay recently about the decline of broadcast TV, I wrote that 'we don't all sit en masse for Must-See TV, but cultural moments — from late-night TV to the news to American Idol — are disseminated widely through YouTube and cable.' "
   
   "The Boyle clip is one such example, and it's a doozy. Mashable reports that the clip is on track to eclipse 100 million online views (if it hasn't already by now). And that's not counting replays on talk shows, news shows, and on and on—factor those in, and you've probably got a bigger audience than the U.S. viewership of the Super Bowl. Keep in mind, we're talking here about a scene from a British reality show, something that would scarcely have gotten American airplay a few years ago. Now it's arguably a bigger, more ubiquitous cultural phenomenon than anything on American TV." 04-09

2. -"The Most Important Chart in American Politics" (Time.com)
   "The chart tracks three economic trends in the U.S. over the last two decades, between 1992 and 2009. The first two lines — productivity and per capita gross domestic product — are rising. This is the unmistakable American success story, the one reflected in record corporate profits, growing wealth accumulation and the unmatched efficiency of this country’s economy. The third line tracks median household income, as measured by the U.S. Census. It shows the story of frustration and stagnation that so many Americans long ago accepted as a reality."
   
   "The chart... was originally created by NDN and the New Policy Institute, and it helped Democrats change the way they talked about the frustration of the American people. Shortly after the 2010 election, Simon Rosenberg, who runs those left-leaning think tanks, showed the chart to David Axelrod and David Simas, two of Obama’s top political advisers. The point of his presentation was that the emergency of the first two years of the Obama presidency — the Great Recession, brought on by financial collapse — did not explain the economic suffering and resulting anger felt by so many voters. Instead it was a more recent manifestation of a trend that had begun nearly a decade earlier."
   
   " 'The reason this is happening is because of rising global competition, the defining new economic challenge of our time,' Rosenberg said in a recent interview with TIME. 'In the actual experience of the American economy, there has become an enormous gap between the upper one-third and everyone else.' " 02-13