I didn’t think I’d be able to work up much indignation over NBC’s bastardized news-division presentation of the Golden Globes: “Going for Gold: A Dateline Special.” It would, after all, not be the first time that a network’s journalists would be forced to compromise themselves in the name of making a buck or two million: [...]

Best Golden Globes ever? Well, that would be a bit of an overstatement, but I could get used to this brevity thing. The only way the Globes could have gotten the business over any quicker would have been to give out the awards by mass e-mail. NBC, of course, had to add on to the [...]

I’ve had the sense that there was more-than-average interest at Tuned In about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. You read what I think about it–not impressed, though interested to see a third episode after the improved second one, which airs tonight. (Another point I neglected to make: why are murderous sci-fi robots always programmed with [...]

Jill Greenberg/FOX The coming weekend, in your hail of bullets: * A confession: I am not a big fan of the Terminator movies. I’m not sure whether that would have made me more or less likely to enjoy Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but if a series is worthwhile, it should stand on its own. [...]

People say to me, “James, all these smarty-pants TV critics are saying The Wire is the greatest drama on TV. But I’m afraid if I start watching it now, I’ll have no idea what’s going on. Should I just jump in?” And I say to them, “Don’t cheat yourself, Hypothetical Person! Get the DVDs of [...]

Looking over the headlines this morning, it’s clear that media critics are having a field day piling on the pundits who piled on Hillary and got piled under by reality last night. Critics like me, for instance. I should note one thing for fairness’ sake, though. The pundits weren’t wrong on the Clinton-Obama race alone. [...]

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 [...]