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Dexter, Decency and DVRs

The PTC wants to stop him before he kills again—on CBS. / Dan Littlejohn/Showtime I had lunch yesterday with Tim Winter, the president of broadcast-decency advocate and my sometime adversary, the Parents Television Council. Among the issues we discussed was CBS’s plan to repurpose Showtime’s serial-killer drama Dexter next month; the PTC would be launching [...]

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From SwoonWatch to SnubWatch

As if to prove that it can pursue ridiculous anti-Obama narratives as well as overspinning his triumphs, the political press has moved on to The Snub. I almost hate to call attention to it, but this may be the daffiest story of the primary season yet.

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Newsroom Swearing: Special Report

Note: The following post is about the news media, and therefore contains extreme profanity. In my latest Wire Watch, I made the offhanded comment that the scene in which Haynes is reprimanded for swearing in the newsroom was the first element in the Sun story that didn’t ring true to me. (I write this having [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Bear With Me

Great LDG comments so far this week. Keep ‘em coming. But first, a public-service announcement. I assume that because I and others have gotten screeners of the first two Lost episodes, there is probably lots of spoilage on the Web by now. Tuned In commenters, being the upstanding models of Periclean civic discourse that you [...]

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The Morning After: The Nebraska Primary

Paula, Simon and Randy search for crooning Cornhuskers. / Michael Becker / FOX Last night was the latest round in America’s electoral free-for-all, a round that, depending on your perspective, was gripping and decisive or a meaningless beauty contest. I speak, of course, of the Omaha audition rounds of American Idol. A couple audition rounds [...]