While extolling the virtues of online give-and-take with readers, I neglected to mention the most important benefit of it: getting someone else to do your work for you! In this case, hashing over the cliffhanger-y season finale of Grey’s Anatomy. (No spoilers here, but assume there will be in the comments and proceed accordingly.) …
Leno Invites O'Brien to His Farewell, Before Not Actually Leaving
In a conference call with reporters today, Jay Leno announced that his final on-air guest on The Tonight Show will be his replacement, Conan O’Brien. Leno will welcome O’Brien to the show he will begin hosting June 1—a debut that, of course, has totally been overshadowed by Jay Leno’s staying on to do a 10 p.m. E.T. show starting in …
Obama's Image Problem on Prisoner Abuse
Yesterday President Obama announced that he would oppose the court-ordered release of photos depicting abuse of prisoners by U.S. authorities overseas. As I did when the Bush Administration opposed similar photo releases, or fought the depiction of caskets of war dead returning from Iraq, I believe this is the wrong move. (Among the …
WSJ's Social-Networking Twits
One of the issues facing traditional media in the online-media age is not just losing their status as gatekeepers for their readers; it’s how to remain the gatekeepers for their own staff. In other words, when anyone can post anything online, immediately, in chatrooms, blogs, Facebook or Twitter, what limits do you put on your …
Idol Watch: Your Final Two
Brief spoilers for the American Idol elimination after the jump:
Lostwatch: Everything That Rises Must Converge. Eventually. Right?
Before you read this post, take a leap to the bottom of the world’s softest mineshaft and watch last night’s season five finale of Lost.
Corporate Press Release Theater: Party Down Lives!
Clip on your pink bowtie and crack open a bottle of house-brand liquor: Starz’s hilarious Party Down is getting a second season! (However, whether Jane Lynch–now a regular in Fox’s heavily-promoted Glee–will be able to return is still up in the air.) Excerpts from the announcement after the jump:
Happy Lost Day! We Begin Bombing in…
Namaste, readers. When last we left our castaways, Jack was preparing to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the Island to change the course of time, while Locke, thirty years in the future, planned to kill a supernatural being. Nothing big ever happens on this show.
Encroaching deadlines prevent me from posting much this morning, so I’ll turn …
Obama Names His Choice for the NEA
I said I’d be posting occasionally from on the road and here I am already. After months of speculation about who would be the president’s choice to head the National Endowment for the Arts, the nominee turns out to be a big surprise — the New York theater producer Rocco Landesman, the man behind Angels in America and The Producers. …
Fringe Watch: A Different World
Spoilers for the season finale of Fringe coming up after the jump:
Judging American Idol: The Final 3
This is what American Idol thinks of you, America: you are a sap. You are maudlin and sentimental and the way to your heart is with a big, sloppy ballad, the more power notes the better. So for the penultimate Idol of season 8—and holy crap, there have been 300 episodes of this show?—judges and contestants alike served up the …
On the Road Again
Again. But I’ll be posting occasionally from there.
TV Tonight: Jersey Girls
If a show like Disney’s JONAS is review-proof, then Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey may be endorsement-proof: if you don’t like this Bravo franchise, than I probably can’t persuade you to try this installment. But while I don’t much care if I never see another installment of Orange County, Atlanta or even New York City, I …