Writing one of these quarterly reports inevitably involves a period of intensive viewing followed by a lapse back into old-fashioned…

The media world is abuzz with speculation about revolutionary developments: more and better public television, new community cable systems that…

In the very week that technology achieved its apotheosis in the moon landings, "Life" devoted pride of place on the…

I was a little irritated with one of my English department colleagues the other day. This very strict and uncompromising…

Anyone who calls himself--or allows himself to be called--a television critic cannot afford to neglect the junk that clutters the…

If Tom Wolfe is to be believed, journals like "Commentary" are on the way out.

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TELEVISION as Reality" might almost have been a better title for this article. The last five horrific years have clearly…

ACCORDING TO Robert Jay Lifton, the 20th century is fostering a new breed of human beings whose dispositions are so…

Maybe Mcluhan is right and the medium is the massage, subtly working us over and restructuring the personality.

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To be the “regular television critic” even of a magazine like COMMENTARY is surely to occupy an excessively modest position…