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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1402 days ago

Nonprofit Press Release Theater: ANTM, Put Some Clothes On

By James Poniewozik

Today, Corporate Press Release Theater™ makes equal time for a non-corporate press release. The Parents Television Council has lodged a new decency complaint, this time against America’s Next Top Model: LOS ANGELES (April 8, 2008) – The Parents Television Council ™ filed an indecency complaint over CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” for showing a nude [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1402 days ago

Idol Gives Back Gives Back

By James Poniewozik

This week’s edition of American Idol will attempt to raise consciousness about, and propose solutions to, one of the most tragic problems afflicting our planet: that there are not enough hours of American Idol already programmed on Fox every week. Last year, you’ll recall, Idol Gives Back week ended with a surprise non-elimination round, because [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 1402 days ago

Report: CNN, CBS Seek Innovative, Exciting New Ways to Lay Off Journalists

By James Poniewozik

So over here you’ve got CNN, which has a big international newsgathering organization, but whose corporate daddy (and mine), Time Warner, is like, too totally cheap to buy it a sibling broadcast network, like all the other kids have, which is, like, totally unfair. And over here, you have CBS, the network that has a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1402 days ago

The Morning After: Now I've Seen Everything

By James Poniewozik

Yamaguchi: skating without the blades and the triple lutz. / ABC “Now I’ve seen everything.” You say that, every now and again, right, but of course it’s a joke, since if you fiddle with the random premutations enough there are always things you haven’t seen. An elephant in a cocktail dress playing Scrabble, for instance. [...]