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Contributors Archive
 
 
2008
Sep
4
REPUBLICANS GET MESSAGE ACROSS UNFILTERED By David Bianculli
 
 
Last night the Republicans made history, and not just by nominating the first woman to be part of their presidential ticket. They made history by being the first party at either of the 2008 conventions -- and, if my memory serves, the first party at any presidential convention ever -- to get across its prime-time message totally unfiltered on commercial broadcast TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Sep
3
PALIN TAKES STAGE, "DAILY SHOW" TAKES AIM, "90210" TAKES OFF (BARELY) By David Bianculli
 
 
There's a lot to cover today: How the networks covered last night's convention, and what to expect tonight. How good "The Daily Show" is doing at these conventions. And how the two-hour premiere of CW's "90210," not available for preview, measured up last night. So let's get right to it, in order...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Sep
3
FLICK PICKS: POLITICS, HOLLYWOOD STYLE By Diane Werts
 
 
With this year's presidential race shaping up fact to be wilder than fiction, perhaps the scripted stuff offers more true insight than reality can...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Sep
2
GUSTAV STORMS GULF COAST, TV NEWS NETWORKS STORM STORM By David Bianculli
 
 
Brian Williams, returning to the site of his impressive Katrina reporting from three years ago, climbed atop one of the precarious levees separating New Orleans from another devastating flood. Determined and defiant, he was like Jack Nicholson at the end of "A Few Good Men." You want him on that wall. You NEED him on that wall...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Sep
1
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, HURRICANE SEASON, FALL SEASON -- SPLIT-SCREEN SCRAMBLES EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK By David Bianculli
 
 
Last Wednesday night, while most network anchors and analysts were focusing on the evening's Democratic National Convention speeches...NBC's Brian Williams looked ahead to the Republican event, and to the threat of Hurricane Gustav bearing down on New Orleans -- Very prescient. Very smart. And for the Republicans, potentially disastrous...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
29
OBAMA GETS HIGH MARKS FROM MOST ANALYSTS, BUT CBS DESERVES LOW ONES By David Bianculli
 
 
Barack Obama ended the Democratic National Convention, and made history, with a speech that got high marks from most (but not all) analysts -- but what many called his finest hour was marred, at the start, by an arrogant editorial decision by CBS News...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
28
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION DAY 3: BROADCAST TV MISSED THE BEST PARTS By David Bianculli
 
 
By giving an hour, and only an hour, of prime-time coverage to political conventions in 2008, the commercial broadcast networks are condensing themselves into relative irrelevance...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
28
FLICK PICKS: CINERAMA LIVES! (SORT OF) By Diane Werts
 
 
How the West Was Won debuts on Encore Westerns Saturday at 8 p.m. after a six-year frame by frame restoration of the original three-strip Cinerama print of the 1962 epic...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
27
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION DAY 2: MORE UNITY, BUT ALSO MORE PUMAS By David Bianculli
 
 
On Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton went a few minutes overtime, spilling out of prime time past the 11 p.m. ET hour and giving the poor broadcast networks even less time to assess her speech. But there and on cable, most reviews ranged from positive to raves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Aug
26
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION TV COVERAGE: HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE MISSING By David Bianculli
 
 
Every network made choices about what to show, and ignore, while covering the Democratic National Convention Monday night. Here are those choices, culled after watching coverage on 12 TV sets simultaneously...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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