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TV Tonight: From The Peach Pit to The Barn

By James Poniewozik

Mackey’s back in town. / Prashant Gupta / FX Lots of TV on television tonight beyond the on-again Republican National Convention. First, and least threatening to President Bush’s demographic, is The CW’s remake of 90210, which the network did not send to critics in advance, presumably for fear we would be blinded by its sheer [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1255 days ago

Palin: Smear or Gift? Pt. 2

By James Poniewozik

Expectations for Sarah Palin’s nomination speech before the media went nuts with the pregnancy story: How presidential is she? How well will she address [her foreign-policy experience, her real position on the Bridge to Nowhere, Troopergate...]? Expectations for Sarah Palin’s nomination speech after the media went nuts with the pregnancy story: How human is she? [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1255 days ago

Palin Rumors: Smear or Gift?

By James Poniewozik

The Sarah Palin story/ies blew up while I was on vacation, and it’s so fascinating—from a media coverage angle as well as others—that I’ll try to resist the urge to overpost. (By which I mean not just the pregnancy but her whole candidacy and rollout.) I may not be able to keep that promise, though. [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1255 days ago

The Morning After: Meanwhile, in Non-Political Soap Operas…

By James Poniewozik

GIOVANNI RUFINO/THE CW I’m back from vacation, and Gossip Girl has returned with me. I’m not sure what I’m more unsettled by: seeing Chuck as a quasi-sympathetic figure (“Damn that motherChucker!”), or seeing Jay McInerney as an actor. (Me: “Guy who wrote Bright Lights, Big City! Distracting!” Most of GG audience: “Ew, old guy! Distracting!”) [...]

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Thanks; or, the Shameless Pandering Post

By James Poniewozik

A quick thank-you, by the way, to all of Tuned In’s commenters. Robo-James gets a lot of credit for running the blog while I’m away, but now that I’ve unplugged him, I can say this: the dirty not-so-secret is that you really run this blog while I’m on vacation, by keeping things lively in the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1255 days ago

The Palin Media-Sexism Debate: A Preview

By James Poniewozik

You must be wondering by now what I think about the question: has the media coverage of Sarah Palin been sexist? Well, for starters, I— What’s that you say? You didn’t ask? Because no one’s asking? Because it’s not actually a controversy yet? Maybe not. But as night follows day, it will be. Here is [...]