The Daily Show

10-31-79. / All images: PHOTO OF THE DAY, 1979-1997 I spent a good part of Tuesday night looking at a website of Polaroids taken by Jamie Livingston, a film maker and musician who shot one a day from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997, almost 6700 altogether. Sometimes he may have had a friend [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: CW's Outsourced Sunday

One more bit of post-upfront fall-schedule news: The CW has announced its Sunday-night lineup, which it contracted out to studio Media Rights Capital. On tap, dirty jobs, family comedy—and a whole lot of product integration:

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Pro-Obama Bias Hurting Obama?

While we’re talking about MSNBC, at The New Republic, Obama supporter Isaac Chotiner argues that not only is MSNBC biased toward his candidate, but that that bias has actually harmed Obama: …by mocking Clinton’s decision to stay in the race, Olbermann has only bolstered her argument that “the boys” are trying to push her out. [...]

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The Best Damn Food Show Period

TRAVEL CHANNEL The other day while writing up last week’s Top Chef, I lamented that the show hadn’t found a way to get Anthony Bourdain on every week. It later occurred to me that I should have mentioned, for those of you who didn’t know, that you can get a more regular fix of Bourdain, [...]

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Keith Olbermann Blows Last Remaining Gasket

So while we were away, Sen. Hillary Clinton apparently made an ill-advised reference to the RFK assassination (and the June timing thereof) by way of explaining her continuing run in the Democratic primary. And apparently Keith Olbermann had a thing or two to say about it: The substance (or lack thereof) of the controversy notwithstanding—big [...]

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The Morning After: Picking Up Where We Left Off

The long holiday weekend is over, so what better way to ease back into blogging than by posting on the exact same subject I last posted on three days ago? Feel free to post any impressions of the big Memorial Day weekend TV events, HBO’s Recount or A&E’s The Andromeda Strain. Or use this as [...]