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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 47 quotes by Tom Shales Thomas William "Tom" Shales (born November 3, 1944) is an American critic of television programming and operations. He is best known as TV critic for The Washington Post; in 1988, Shales received the Pulitzer Prize. He also writes a column for the television news trade publication NewsPro, published by Crain Communications. Read full biography of Tom Shales → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. 0 Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between... → 0 'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of... → 0 Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The... → 0 Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did... → 0 In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the... → 0 Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and... → 0 'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of... → 0 Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted... → 0 Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real... → 0 You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or... → 0 Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so... → 0 The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV. 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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