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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1374 days ago

My Paradise Is a Cow's Hell

By James Poniewozik

My grand tour of the new channels in my expanded HD lineup continued last night with the Travel Channel HD, which was airing something called Steak Paradise. (If there were a religion that named its afterlife Steak Paradise, I would join that religion.) You wouldn’t think that meat is something that benefits from high definition, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1374 days ago

The Media's Generation-Gap Gap

By James Poniewozik

A question to consider as the Indiana and North Carolina returns come in today: What’s the biggest determining demographic factor in the Democratic primary? It’s gender, right? God knows you can’t open a newspaper politics section, or even a style section, without reading about the great war between the boys and the girls in the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1374 days ago

Top Terror Leader Dishes in Web Chat!

By James Poniewozik

OK, this is not exactly TV-related, but it is fascinating nonetheless. Al Qaida’s number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has posted answers to questions solicited on jihadist websites early this year and last year. Bin Laden’s deputy responded to often-hostile questions on subjects ranging from the killing of Muslim innocents to Al Qaida’s action (or lack thereof) [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1374 days ago

The Morning After: Goodbye, Geraldine Ferrar-bro

By James Poniewozik

If How I Met Your Mother is the Lost of sitcoms, and it is, then there must sometimes be storylines in which the main characters are separated by circumstances. If How I Met Your Mother is the Lost of sitcoms, and it is, then there must sometimes be episodes that mainly serve to set the [...]