Prospero - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:24:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Economist Does the Emmys When it comes to cheeky headlines, few publications are as consistently on target as The Economist. Today, for their wrap-up of the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, the austere UK mag has chosen to go with “Up Close and Impersonal.”

The article by “Prospero” wastes no time in taking down the host city. After calibrating our high density of tanning salons and frozen yogurt stores, it segues to this:

Los Angeles is a city where Michael Bay, a filmmaker lately known for directing the Transformers franchise, and the Kardashian sisters are held up as glowing examples of something, but no one really knows quite what (perhaps LA-ness?).

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/2011-primetime-emmys-economist-prospero-michael-bay-charlie-sheen_b39572#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/2011-primetime-emmys-economist-prospero-michael-bay-charlie-sheen_b39572 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=39572 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:30:04 +0000