He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary.
A dispute with a former HBO executive assistant has unearthed allegations in Rolling Stone that Casey Bloys, then the network’s president of original programming, directed employees to troll critics posting about network programming on social media from fake accounts.
New York Times readers will soon have a new TV critic to pick over the highs and lows of the medium. The newspaper has hired James Poniewozik, who has held a similar function at Time magazine, to fill a slot recently vacated by Alessandra Stanley.
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Bill Carter, who has covered the television industry at The New York Times for more than 25 years and remains one of the best known writers in the industry, is taking a voluntary buyout. Carter said today that leaving the paper was a “really wrenching and agonizing decision.”
NBC’s Greenblat Not A Fan Of TV Critics
Bob Greenblatt, the chairman of NBC Entertainment, “I think in cable TV, critics are important because they raise the profile of a show. But in broadcast TV, the critics are just savage to us.”
Longtime Chicago media columnist Robert Feder is launching a standalone media blog next month through a partnership with the Chicago Tribune. The editorially independent website, RobertFeder.com, will be owned by Feder, but licensed and marketed by the Chicago Tribune Media Group, an agreement based on generating online traffic and ad revenue.
