Television Archives | Chandra Clarke

Why you should absolutely believe Margaret Mead and Mr. Rogers

A change of pace today: I’m going to tell you a little story. Once upon a time, there was a smallish community located in a large and cold kingdom. The land was suffering from a great plague that, like many sicknesses before it, shuttered people in their homes, caused many to die, and many […]

Keepin’ It Real

Recent advances in medicine have allowed us to do some pretty amazing things. For example, progress in drug development has allowed millions of people to lead healthy, normal lives interrupted only by the constant ads for Prozac via email, television, radio and magazines. Scanning technology in particular has revealed some very interesting things about the […]

Death of a Sales Pitch

This week, I ask you all to look inside your hearts to see if you can spare a bit of love and sympathy for the poor, embattled ad executive. No? Oh come on, not even a teensy weensy bit? Well, that doesn’t surprise me, but it’s going to come as yet another shock to the […]

All I Really Need To Know I Learned From TV

Television and movie executives have millions of dollars to play with. They have access to the best special effects studios, some of which have computers more powerful than your local university. You would think that, with all of this at their disposal, the worlds they create on the big and small screen would be interesting, […]