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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1231 days ago

Joe the… War Correspondent

By James Poniewozik

Let it never be said that no media organizations are expanding their overseas coverage. A conservative website has hired Real America resident Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher as a war correspondent. Wurzelbacher will reportedly spend ten days in Israel, asking Israeli “Average Joes” to tell their stories as fighting rages in Gaza.  In other news, [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1231 days ago

Pop-Up Exposition

By James Poniewozik

Peevish thoughts that occur to me while going through review screeners, an occasional series:  Can we declare some kind of moratorium on little supertitles in TV series telling us the name and significance of every new character we meet? If we’re watching a scene in which an ad exec is pitching a client—and I pick [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1231 days ago

Can Barack Obama Bail Out the Media By Getting Inaugurated?

By James Poniewozik

As the New York Times reports—and the constant stream of network-news PR emails hitting my inbox attest—TV is going all out to provide coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20.  HBO will carry a free inaugural celebration. CNN will be at the Newseum. MSNBC will be on the Mall. And Fox News will be [...]

+Looking Around | 1231 days ago

Let ‘Em Fall?

By Richard Lacayo

The other day on his blog Modern Art Notes Tyler Green suggested that museums that suffer severe financial meltdowns should close their doors rather than rescue themselves by selling work from their collections. Their collections should be redistributed among other, more solvent museums that could continue to show the work. Aside from the obvious objection [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1231 days ago

The Morning After: Successful Transplant?

By James Poniewozik

  Scrubs last night began its first season on a new network, ABC, in the process generating much more attention than it would have were it beginning its eighth season on its old network, NBC. What say you, Scrub-o-philes: was the procedure a success? Or is it being unnecessarily prolonged past the limits of its [...]