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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

Your computer continues to eat your TV. Online gossip guru Perez Hilton–who did a bit this summer on Victoria Beckham’s NBC reality special–premieres What Perez Sez About tonight on VH1. (Or is it just called What Perez Sez? There seems to be some disagreement.) Out of sheer curiosity I (which, as always, means, “at least [...]

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"We've Just Had Another Explosion"

It didn’t take long after that cloudless Tuesday on the Eastern seaboard for the Sept. 11 attacks to become video wallpaper–the crashes, the fireballs, the towers collapsing, over and over and over. Six years later, plenty of people are still bothered by how often and how casually TV news replays what are, after all, the [...]

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That Darn List! The Top 10 TV News Events

Bernard Shaw and Peter Arnett from Baghdad in 1991. When I finished the All-TIME 100 TV Shows list, I had so much leftover list-making energy that I came up with a sidebar list of 10 influential TV news events. The editors of time.com decided that was one more bell and/or whistle than the package needed. [...]