TV and popular culture.

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• Masters of Disaster CNN's earthquake coverage rises above the rest.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 28, 2004
  
• Happy News Year The networks cast their anchors for 2005.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 21, 2004
  
• Moyers Says "Ciao" to Now But HBO had better not retire The Wire.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 14, 2004
  
• Cable News Cretinism Blame Canada!
  Dana Stevens Dec. 6, 2004
  
• Cable News Cretinism Jerry Falwell's straight story.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 1, 2004
  
• George Costanza Sings! And other reasons to watch NBC's A Christmas Carol.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 26, 2004
  
• Anchor Adrift Chris Matthews free-associates at the opening of the Clinton Library.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 16, 2004
  
• Terminal Illness The NBC airport drama LAX isn't long for this world. But why?
  Dana Stevens Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Photo Finish Bush's latest campaign ad experiments with human cloning.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 27, 2004
  
• Another Day at The Office The BBC series returns for a melancholy farewell.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 18, 2004
  
• Let Them Eat Education Is "No Child Left Behind" Bush's answer to everything?
  Dana Stevens Oct. 11, 2004
  
• Double Vision The networks just say no to camera restrictions on the debates.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 6, 2004
  
• Pass the Popcorn, Senator How John Edwards learned to stop worrying and love Dr. Strangelove.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 27, 2004
  
• Crime Night Law & Order and CSI: New York go head to head.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 20, 2004
  
• Tiger Tales NBC apologizes for exploiting Siegfried & Roy by ... exploiting Siegfried & Roy.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 10, 2004
  
• Where Have All the Real Men Gone? Caring about the big issues is just so faggy at the RNC.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 1, 2004
  
• If He Only Had a Heart John Kerry tanks on The Daily Show.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 25, 2004
  
• Small Victories The Amazing Race loses its most delectably detestable duo.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 20, 2004
  
• Small Victories The Amazing Race loses its most delectably detestable duo.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 20, 2004
  
• He's (Not So) Bad VH1 offers up a treacly valentine to Michael Jackson.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 2, 2004
  
• Battle of the Network Anchors Ted Koppel and Jon Stewart face off on the convention floor.
  July 28, 2004
  
• First Wives' Club Washington Wives exposes the banality beneath the PR machine.
  Dana Stevens July 20, 2004
  
• Handicapping the Emmys A wish list for 2004.
  Dana Stevens July 15, 2004
  
• E! True Hollywood Story: Comfort Viewing for the Discriminating Time-Waster A blog about TV and pop culture.
  Dana Stevens July 7, 2004
  
• Word Games Trio's The N-Word investigates the history of America's most ambiguous racial slur.
  Dana Stevens June 28, 2004