Jeez. Just… jeez. I’m not quite sure what to say that won’t seem like piling on.

Well, one thing. Katie Couric has interviewed Sarah Palin in several rounds now. At least three times (McCain and regulation, Palin’s media consumption and Supreme Court decisions), Palin’s stumbles followed pretty much the same pattern:

KC: …

Did absence make your heart grow fonder? Last night, ABC’s Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money returned after an eternity in post-strike suspended animation. The big gamble in keeping these shows off the air in April and May, then “relaunching” now, of course, is that they would neither seem new and exciting a …

Besides the do-over of the ABC Wednesday night lineup, tonight Friday Night Lights returns on DirecTV’s 101 Network. I’ve seen the first episode, and to the extent that season 2 got away from the show’s first season roots—with the Landry killing subplot especially, but more soap drama in general—the premiere gets back to them, …

The New York Times reports that, for all the buzz generated by Katie Couric’s multiple interviews with Sarah Palin, the ratings for the CBS Evening News barely budged, and are down from last year.

For CBS, it’s an example of TV’s burning question, to which I don’t pretend to have an answer: In the multiplatform, multiscreen era, what is …

A day and a half before the Vice Presidential debate, seemingly the entire conservative blogosphere has, at pretty much the same time, decided that Gwen Ifill is an absolutely unacceptable choice as moderator. (Matt Drudge is presently blaring the news on his Bat-signal.) The reason: she’s writing a book, to be published on Inauguration …

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, make yourself a raw roast beef sandwich with jalapenos and watch last night’s Fringe.

Brief programming note: Because of Rosh Hashanah, I am joining the great Exodus to the New Jersey suburbs for the holiday. (If you’re wondering about my surname, and people do, my dad was a Polish Catholic and my mom’s a Sephardic Jew from Morocco.) I’m going to go dip some things in honey—like maybe my 401k statements—and see you …

In the postmortems of the failure yesterday of the Congressional bill to right the credit markets, I’m noticing a repeated refrain: representatives voted against it because their constituents hated it, and their constituents hated it because they didn’t understand the consequences.

But if that’s true, isn’t there someone at fault …

1. Let’s be fair: John McCain and Sarah Palin weren’t claiming that a question from a voter was “gotcha journalism.” They were claiming that for Katie Couric to have the temerity to take Palin’s answer to a voter seriously was “gotcha journalism.” That, of course, makes all the difference.

2. Should the McCain-Palin camp—given the …

I don’t have time to gin up separate full-fledged posts on How I Met Your Mother or Heroes from last night, so while there’s nothing really spoilery in the following post, avert your eyes if you’re nervous about that sort of thing.