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Robert J. Thompson (born 3 August 1959 in Hinsdale
Hinsdale, Illinois

Hinsdale is an affluent Chicago suburb located barely in Cook County, Illinois and mainly DuPage County, Illinois in the U.S. state of Illinois....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
) is an American educator.

Thompson is the Trustee Professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University
Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
 and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.

His areas of research are television history, Popular Culture
Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of Distinction memes, ideas, Perspective s and Attitude s that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture....
, media criticism, and TV programming. Thompson's various soundbites have been dubbed by the Associated Press
Associated Press

The Associated Press is an Media of the United States news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, Radio station and Television station stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers....
 as "Thompson-isms".

On February 4, 2009 Jon Hein
Jon Hein

Jon Hein is notable for popularizing the term "jumping the shark" and created the website ....
 of the Howard Stern Show announced that Robert Thompson is his "arch nemesis," referring to popular culture trivia.

He holds a B.A.






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Robert J. Thompson (born 3 August 1959 in Hinsdale
Hinsdale, Illinois

Hinsdale is an affluent Chicago suburb located barely in Cook County, Illinois and mainly DuPage County, Illinois in the U.S. state of Illinois....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
) is an American educator.

Thompson is the Trustee Professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University
Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
 and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.

His areas of research are television history, Popular Culture
Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of Distinction memes, ideas, Perspective s and Attitude s that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture....
, media criticism, and TV programming. Thompson's various soundbites have been dubbed by the Associated Press
Associated Press

The Associated Press is an Media of the United States news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, Radio station and Television station stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers....
 as "Thompson-isms".

On February 4, 2009 Jon Hein
Jon Hein

Jon Hein is notable for popularizing the term "jumping the shark" and created the website ....
 of the Howard Stern Show announced that Robert Thompson is his "arch nemesis," referring to popular culture trivia.

He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in radio, television and film from Northwestern University
Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
.

Publications

Thompson has authored, co-authored, or edited six books and textbooks: Television Studies: Textual Analysis with Gary Burns (1989), Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process with Gary Burns (1990), Adventures on Prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell (1990), Prime Time, Prime Movers (1992), Television's Second Golden Age (1997), and Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History (2004).