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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

MSNBC New Hampshah, New Hampshah, New Hampshah. What can I say? I write for a newsmagazine. Lately my default channel for coverage of primary season has been MSNBC, because somewhere amid the gusher of overheated, high-grade hoo-hah that Chris Matthews spews any given night, there are usually a few bits of thought-provoking insight into the [...]

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Strike Watch: The Fake Fake News

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report returned last night, and like any member of the media I’m biased toward finding myself to be right, so I have to say they were as I expected: different, funny, not nearly as hobbled as people had speculated these writing-intense shows would be. I’m on deadline, so I’ll [...]

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Huckabee on Canada's Igloo Crisis

Because it’s primary day, and because Tuned In is so besieged by traffic whenever we cover Canadian television, I would be remiss if I did not share with you this footage of then-Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee being Boratted by the north-of-the-border Daily Show counterpart This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The governor took time from his [...]

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Hey Kids! Let's Put on a Press Conference!

Let’s start with the bad news: The Golden Globes ceremony has been cancelled. Now the good news. Well, actually that was the good news. But here’s the more news: There’ll be a press conference instead! The Globes ceremony had seemed doomed for some time, owing to the writers’ strike and the subsequent Screen Actors’ Guild [...]

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The Morning After: Camacho for President!

NBC Photo: Trae Patton Watching American Gladiators last night, I realized that I have made a terrible mistake. I would have prepared my children much better for the America of the future if I had given them nouns for first names. Venom, Stealth, Fury, Mayhem–how can you go wrong in life with a name like [...]