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Showing articles 1 to 10 of 11 by Amy Z. Quinn

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March 12th, 2009

Citizen Mom: You've Got to Pay to Play

Philly's budget crisis has secondary effects on suburbanites.

Looking at the issue from across the bridge, it's hard to make judgments about what taxes the city should raise or which services it should cut. Many choices — pools or parks, libraries or homeless shelters, trash removal or a successful tourism campaign — will hurt city residents, especially the most vulnerable ones, most acutely.

by Amy Z. Quinn

February 19th, 2009

Citizen Mom: What Boys Want

Having perfected the High School Musicalization of an entire generation of little girls, Disney is turning the hot breath of its marketing on their brothers.

by Amy Z. Quinn

February 5th, 2009

Citizen Mom: Tales of Journalism Frozen in the Past

It's not about me, Charlie LeDuff told me — it's about the dead guy.

by Amy Z. Quinn

January 22nd, 2009

Citizen Mom: We Are What They Eat?

If Obama can blend green, healthy policies with the symbolism of actual green, healthy living, it could the greatest thing since chocolate met peanut butter.

by Amy Z. Quinn

December 25th, 2008

Citizen Mom: Working Through my Caroline Issues

Caroline Kennedy can't be accused of trading on her surname any more than brother John was when he fancied himself an editor and launched George magazine back in 1995. And certainly she's better-qualified than her cousin Patrick was when he was elected to Congress at age 28.

by Amy Z. Quinn

December 11th, 2008

Citizen Mom: See What Having a Life Gets You?

What does Ed Rendell's alleged gaffe say about gender double standards?

The rhetoric seems to be focused on two questions: One, would Rendell have made the same comment were Napolitano a man? And two, had he made the comment about a man, would it have been newsworthy?

by Amy Z. Quinn

November 27th, 2008

Citizen Mom: Twittstorm

Within days, YouTube was stocked with response videos made by moms furious at an ad that so trivialized a parenting technique used for millennia.

The mobilization began on the blogs but really took off on Twitter, where the so-called "Motrin Moms" juggernaut was born. Within days, YouTube was stocked with response videos made by moms furious that the drug maker would so trivialize a parenting technique used by women for millennia!

by Amy Z. Quinn

November 6th, 2008

Citizen Mom: No Need for Special Effects in the New Real America

Since there's nothing people hate more than a hologram-come-lately, I'll just stick to words.

by Amy Z. Quinn

October 23rd, 2008

Citizen Mom: Palin's Future in "Real America"

She feeds her crowds like a mother bird, spitting up chunks of cultural paranoia candied with "straight talk," enabling their feelings of being put upon by That One, by Those People, the ones who aren't "pro-America." It's as if the 100,000 people who turned out for Obama in St. Louis are The Other, some less authentic version of America.

by Amy Z. Quinn

October 9th, 2008

Citizen Mom: The One Where Citizen Mom Gets Schooled

If you're ever in need of an attitude adjustment, I highly recommend spending a few hours with some teenagers, preferably ones you've pissed off by calling their school an "institution of last resort."

by Amy Z. Quinn

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