This morning’s column from the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman explains the appeal of Sarah Palin in TV terms: As Neil Oxman, political consultant at The Campaign Group, put it to me: For half the country, “Sarah Palin is Roseanne from the ‘Roseanne’ show. ‘Roseanne’ was the No. 1 comedy five years in a row [...]

Another important reason to mau-mau the press about sexism: when you later gin up a B.S. controversy, enough journalists—you don’t need all of them—will feel obligated to report it as a legitimate, he-said-she-said, who-knows-the-real-truth story, even if they really see it to be a baldfacedly cynical campaign ploy. [By the way: "mau-mauing the press about [...]

Flight of the Conchords—the first most popular HBO comedy about New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk duo—has gone back into production on a second season here in New York. There’s been talk that the second season might be the last (indeed, there was talk that the first season might be the last) because of the [...]

Eight days ago—that’s about a decade in campaign years—I did a post titled “The Palin Media-Sexism Debate: A Preview.” Sharp readers of Tuned In may have suspected, correctly, that I did so in part so that, when a bogus controversy like this one blew up, I could simply, lazily link to it and say: see? [...]

What’s a guy got to do to get some live TV coverage of a gigantic atom-smasher that could destroy the world? This morning, I searched the tube in vain for a little coverage of the CERN collider starting up in Switzerland—CNN? Discovery? G4 network?—but except for a little web video, nada. I realize, of course, [...]