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TV Tonight: Be My Baby, Temporarily

By James Poniewozik

Borrowers’ temporary families. / NBC According to The Media and Society, you are Very Concerned about the Suddenly Pressing Topic of Teen Pregnancy. Perhaps you are concerned because of this. Or this. Or this. Or this. Or even this. Whatever the cause, it would take a very dull TV executive not to connect all these [...]

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Whom Should Meet the Press Meet?

By James Poniewozik

I just realized that it is Wednesday morning and I haven’t mentioned the fact that NBC named Tom Brokaw as interim host of Meet the Press through the election. The explanation requires a confession: though I write about the media and follow politics more than is probably healthy, I’m not really a fan of the [...]

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The Morning After: ABC Becomes the Violence Channel

By James Poniewozik

Ow! My… ah, you get the point. / ABC The broadcast-industry project of turning Idiocracy into a documentary continued apace last night, as ABC debuted two very different twists on the concept of dressing up people in funny costumes and making them fall into crap. And both, in their own ways, were examples of how [...]