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Mobile Soaps Offer Suffering, Buffering

JOEL JOHNSON

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If watching one-minute clips of melodramatic pap via your phone sounds appealing, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has something for you: Hotel Franklin, the world’s first made-for-mobiles soap opera. We have the sneaking suspicion that this will go the way of some of those first web-only soap operas, which had a difficult time staying afloat even in the heyday of the “death to television” interweb.

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