BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM comments on the current seismic shifts in the New Media landscape – from TiVo, to YouTube, to cellphone proliferation – discussed in depth at Script to Screen’s most recent seminar, part of a monthly series of talks and debates on hot topics in screenwriting.

MATT RUSSELL discovers irony is far from obsolete, and is that it has “debased the most powerful instrument we had for highlighting irony in the first place: political satire.” He looks at whether The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and other purveyors of entertaining satire have been compromised.