Tuned In+February 25, 2010

Dead Tree Alert: Family Guy Defeats Palin

By James Poniewozik

My Tuned In column in this week’s print issue of TIME looks at Sarah Palin’s Family Guy feud and its irony: Palin had her own favorite rhetorical device turned aganst her. Palin’s strength as a politician has been to use identity politics, drawing her authority from her biography (military mom, special-needs mom, small-town native, etc.) [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | February 22, 2010

While I Was Out: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

By James Poniewozik

Did you miss me? Don’t answer that question! Instead, while I start digging out from under my pile of mail, let’s look at a few of the things I missed (or, at least, ignored) while staycationing last week: * Tiger Woods showed off his sweet new blue curtain, and said that he was very, very [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Advertising | October 27, 2009

In Other News, Turns Out That Talking Paper Clip Was Annoying

By James Poniewozik

So Microsoft has a new operating system to launch. It wants your attention. It wants to reach the young people, who like the Family Guy, which is on the television machine. So Microsoft hired Family Guy’s creator Seth MacFarlane to produce a comedy variety special on Fox sponsored solely by the new Windows 7. Then Microsoft [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+October 16, 2009

Dead Tree Alert: Family of Guys

By James Poniewozik

In this week’s print TIME magazine, I review the cartoon empire of Seth MacFarlane, who dominates Fox’s Animation Domination with three animated sitcoms on Sunday nights. (And in his spare time, besides appearing in FlashForward, is going to do a variety special for Fox and Microsoft.) Regular readers will not be surprised that I am [...]