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Connie Chung Saves TV News

Say this for Connie Chung: She has made any future TV network think twice about cancelling her shows. What MSNBC got for killing her minimally-rated talk show with husband Maury Povich, "Weekends with Maury and Connie," was nearly three minutes of Lynchian weirdness as the former CBS and CNN anchor stood on a grand piano [...]

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In Which My New TV Threatens My Livelihood

I’ve bragged on this blog before about having the worst television set of any TV critic in America: a clunky 20-incher that dates back to the first Bush administration (41, not 43). Well, I’ve lost my bragging rights: I recently broke my home-electronics piggybank and became the owner of my first almost-big-screen plasma TV. (It’s [...]