- Andy Dehnart
Andy Dehnart (born
August 26 ,1977 ) is an American journalist and television critic. He may be best known asreality television 's "longest-standing critic" [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NJ&p_theme=nj&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=%22reality%20television%27s%20longest-standing%20critic%22&p_field_label-0=Author&s_dispstring=Stetson%20instructor%20talks%20TV%20AND%20date(all)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Reality Bytes, "Daytona Beach News-Journal"] ] for hisonline journalism , as he's the creator of the genre's first tracking website, RealityBlurred.com. He is a member of theTelevision Critics Association .Currently a contributor of television and cultural criticism to
msnbc.com , Dehnart has also written forSalon.com ,Wired.com , "The Boston Globe ", and "The Chicago Tribune ". He regularly appears on television and the radio to discuss reality TV and popular culture.He created "
Reality Blurred " in July 2000, and the daily-updated site quickly became a primary source for devotees of the reality TV explosion. The web site has received accolades from entertainment media, with "Slate" deeming it "the site the best culture weblog dedicated to television" and "Entertainment Weekly" awarding it an "A." "USA Today " named Dehnart one of the Top 100 People in Pop Culture in 2001. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/candy/2001-12-19-candy.htm USATODAY.com - Pop Candy's People of the Year 2001 ] ]Dehnart earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from
Bennington College , where hisnon-fiction studies included a lecture which explored the cultural impact ofblog ging, then a relatively unknown phenomenon inpopular culture .Dehnart now teaches writing, journalism, and communication studies at
Stetson University inDeLand, Florida , where he advises the student newspaper. He has also taught forJohns Hopkins University 'sCenter for Talented Youth .Earlier, Dehnart moved to
Chicago in 1999 to work forFree-Market.Net , a libertarian website. Later he worked as a producer for thepavement.com, a site for recent college graduates, and BrassRing, a recruiting solutions company. A native ofNaples, Florida , Dehnart received his BS from Stetson, where he majored in journalism and earned minors in political science and religious studies. While anundergraduate , he edited the weekly campus newspaper, "The Reporter", for two years; both years, it was named the best private college newspaper in the state of Florida. [http://www.floridaleader.com/best_bk3.htm] [http://www.floridaleader.com/Bestnp_2.htm]External links
* [http://www.realityblurred.com/ reality blurred: the reality TV news digest]
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