i'm not so struck by the "tv is now legit and that makes it less interesting" argument as I am the melodrama part -- Fiedler was saying the same thing about the high art/pop culture split.

and i don't see tv critique in academia losing its feminist roots.

but i do wish more garden variety newspaper and tv critics and film reviewers would GROW some feminist roots! rarely have I seen a bigger disconnect between what the academy does and what goes on in the mass media when it talks about itself.