Tuned In+Television | March 9, 2012

The Twidiot Box: How Do You Use Twitter With TV?

By James Poniewozik

I’m en route to Austin, Tex., where on Sunday I’ll be speaking on a South by Southwest panel, Arts Criticism 140 Characters at a Time, about how Twitter and other social media have affected critics. My answer, in a word: immensely.

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Tuned In+News Media | August 30, 2011

The Freakout Before the Storm

By James Poniewozik

After a welcome vacation and a less-welcome hurricane-related flight cancellation (which, luckily, set us back only a day), I’m back. Kind of! Like the New York metropolitan transportation grid, Tuned In is gradually and fitfully restoring its regular schedule. Expect delays, scattered outages and surly, grudging customer service in the interim. Hurricane Irene was the [...]

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Tuned In+January 7, 2011

Dead Tree Alert: Citizens Band

By James Poniewozik

My latest column in the print TIME magazine, is a bit of a what-I-did-on-my-winter-vacation essay: trying to figure out how or if I could drive home from Michigan to poorly-plowed Brooklyn after the blizzard, I turned to Twitter to get extreme micronews about the block-by-block situation on the ground. My conclusion? The old insult that [...]

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Tuned In+July 26, 2010

Fan-ola: NBC Will Make It Worth Your While to Like Its Shows

By James Poniewozik

Are you excited about NBC’s new fall shows? Really excited? Oh. Well, would a Daryl “Office” bobblehead change your mind? Or a Bob and Jillian Biggest Loser mug? NBC is busily promoting its “Fan It” social networking program, in which it will pay, er, um, incentivize fans of its shows to promote its programming by [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | September 29, 2009

The Washington Post Slaps the Twitter Handcuffs on Its Staff

By James Poniewozik

Here’s something everybody should understand about journalism. The reporters, columnists and news anchors you follow almost all have opinions about the subjects they cover. There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, it is a good thing, because any person who immersed him or herself in a vital, contentious subject all day and formed no opinion [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | March 19, 2009

Now You Show Me Your Twitter

By James Poniewozik

Ah, I’m just never going to get tired of writing headlines like that! It occurred to me that, after I posted yesterday about joining Twitter partly to be able to follow other writers’ feeds, I didn’t actually mention who any of those other writers were. Besides several of Tuned In’s longtime favorite TV, media and culture critics, [...]