…and calculated the precise amount of time that it is appropriate to take up with its exclusive multimedia manifesto from Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech killer. From a press release just issued:

Upon receiving the materials from Cho Seung-Hui, NBC News took careful consideration in determining how the information should be

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It’s not like I have anything much to say. But I figured some of our redoubtable Sanjayaphobes could use a place to comment, gloat, dance amidst the lighted torches and pitchforks whilst swinging Sanjaya’s lifeless head by its long raven tresses, etc. Have at it.

Anyway, now we get to look forward to a couple exciting weeks in which …

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost yet, go and do it now… lest you change the future!

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To those of us who hold Charlie as our least favorite major Lost character, last night’s episode presents a conundrum. On the one hand, seeing him take an arrow in the throat in Desmond’s vision, only to be …

It was Country Night on American Idol, which meant poppified versions of recent country hits that were extremely poppified to begin with. My weekly reviews are up: the pictures won’t be updated with photos of last night until later in the day, at which point all references to clothing and hairdos may actually make sense. In the …

Flipping through the cable channels this morning, I caught the tail end of a Hilton Hotels commercial that uses a snippet from Ben Folds’ Landed, his beautiful single from the Songs for Silverman album. When I hear a old song like the Violent Femmes’ Blister in the Sun used in a Wendy’s commercial, I may snark about it but it doesn’t …

Geraldo Rivera, on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto:

“You know, Neil, it is interesting. This kid is troubled in a way that’s even deeper than the chip on his shoulder. In his creative-writing courses he wrote in ways that were filled with sadistic imagery and savage, violent images that the teacher, the professor, referred him to …

The one act of the Virginia Tech shooter that we can be thankful for is that, when he took his own life after the massacre, he blew his face off. This meant that he could not immediately be identified, which in turn meant delaying the inevitable round of moronic analysis of why he did what he did.

After the Columbine shootings, you’ll …

OK, I realize that covering a breaking story like the Virginia Tech shooting is not easy, and that inevitably there is going to be a certain amount of video wallpaper, repetitiousness and regrettable choices made in cable news, because that’s what happens. (Case in point: I typed “overkill” in the previous sentence before my inner …

Keith Olbermann’s career has turned so many times that it’s easy to forget that he was a sports anchor before he became the disaffected progressive’s basic-cable Edward R. Murrow of choice. But NBC hasn’t forgotten, today naming him–after a six-year absence from sports–co-host of Football Night in America, joining Bob Costas, Cris …

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“My estimate, historically,” said Tony Soprano in last week’s episode, “80 percent of the time [a boss] ends up in the can, like Johnny Sack. Or the embalming table.” Having experienced one of the outcomes, last night Johnny Sack experienced outcome number two. It was an excellent performance and sendoff for Vincent Curatola, and …