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We Belong Together / Like Traffic and Weather

By James Poniewozik

…and speaking of the environment, the long pursuit of the Weather Channel has ended, with NBC Universal and associated investors pulling together an estimated $3.5 billion deal to buy the network. That may seem like a lot of money for a channel you’re accustomed to watching for as long as it takes to get to [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Smug Warning

By James Poniewozik

There was a great episode of South Park in which the environment is threatened by a massive “cloud of smug” generated by hybrid-car drivers. Some of the shows on the celebrity-obsessed eco-channel Planet Green—the subject of my latest print Time column—generate a cloud of smug so vast it threatens to blot out the sun: One [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 1316 days ago

New York Times Declares War on Fox News

By James Poniewozik

A blog post about a newspaper column about a TV network publicity department’s treatment of newspaper reporters: if this post were any more inside baseball, it would be made of solid cork. But for those of you interested in the sausage-making end of the TV-news business—or who just like seeing two media giants throw down—David [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1316 days ago

The Morning After: Aces

By James Poniewozik

I’ve said time and again that I don’t really watch TV sports, but I make an exception once a year for the Wimbledon finals, so yesterday I saw most of the vast, epic match between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. What amazes me watching tennis from a TV standpoint, however, are the advances in computer-pinpointing [...]

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Back

By James Poniewozik

I’m back from a week in North Carolina, where I sampled the barbecue but not the tobacco. (Seriously, not to engage in state stereotyping, but at a Food Lion my first night in the state I saw the largest display of brands of chewing tobacco I’ve seen in my life.) If anybody finds a pair [...]