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The Daily Show: Over the Hill?

May 10, 2012 By Ted Vaill Leave a Comment

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Ted Vaill: Fresh material is always there for the taking, but watching The Daily Show night after night, as I usually do (but may not do much longer), gets a little boring at times.

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“Mad Men”: The Decline and Fall of Peter Campbell

April 20, 2012 By David Walsh Leave a Comment

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David Walsh: Decline has been a dramatic necessity on this show throughout its entire run. “I’m living like there’s no tomorrow,” Don said back in the very first episode, “because there isn’t one.”

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“Mad Men” Gets Dark. Really Dark.

April 11, 2012 By David Walsh Leave a Comment

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David Walsh: It’s been especially interesting watching Mad Men this season and seeing how the writers weave the happenings of ’66 into the show.

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Fox News Squelches Baseball Manager’s Free Speech for Pro-Castro Comments

April 10, 2012 By Jim Rhodes 1 Comment

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James Rhodes: The Guillen suspension highlights the power of small extremist groups that can hold political parties hostage while attempting to force their political agendas upon the rest of the country.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Sells Out on “Mad Men”

April 3, 2012 By David Walsh Leave a Comment

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David Walsh: Sunday night’s Mad Men episode made the characters seem so … old — rom Betty Francis’s cancer scare, to Roger Sterling finally realizing he’s obsolete, to Don’s awkward attempts to psychoanalyze the youth market.

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The Return of “Mad Men”

March 27, 2012 By David Walsh Leave a Comment

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David Walsh: After an eighteen-month long hiatus, AMC’s Mad Men, a favorite subject for historians and academics to get quoted in the media, finally returned to the airwaves Sunday night.

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Pat Buchanan Out, Melissa Harris-Perry In at MSNBC

January 10, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

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Jessie Daniels: This is the first time that an African American woman has had her own show on MSNBC. Harris-Perry follows in the footsteps of other African American firsts, including Carol Jenkins whose career included 23 years as co-anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast and her own local show.

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Hurry to See Borgen: A Ten-Part Series Political Drama

November 6, 2011 By Walter G. Moss Leave a Comment

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Walter Moss: Coming from the producers of the excellent Danish series The Killing, recently remade and shown on American TV (AMC), the high quality of this new series should come as no surprise.

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Reality in Real Life Is Not Television

November 4, 2011 By Anthnony Asadullah Samad Leave a Comment

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Anthony Samad: At a time when the world is falling apart, American society loses itself in the false realities of television made to strip us of our money and any intellectual dignity we may have left.

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Sex Slavery: Now, That’s a Laugh

November 2, 2011 By Jim Rhodes 1 Comment

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Jim Rhodes: When someone says you’re fat or gay, we are ready to sue; but when someone suggests you should be sold as a sex slave — now that’s comedy?

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