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	The Washington Post Writers Group -- Jabari Asim
		Shales is a master of satire and parody of the latest TV effrontery.
		Shales joined The Washington Post as a writer in the Style section in 1972, was named chief television critic in July 1977 and was appointed TV Editor in June 1979--the year The Washington Post Writers Group began syndicating his column.
		Shales needles the networks and delights readers." ADWEEK reports, "Tom Shales is regarded by many as the nation's No. 1 television critic." People magazine concludes: "He is the country's best, most engaged and engaging TV critic."
	postwritersgroup.com /shales.htm (436 words)

	Penraker: Thou Shalt Not Question Tom Shales
		Shales, you will remember, is the one who said Mel Gibson had his "parking place in hell" reserved as a result of this movie.
		Shales was beside himself, and became almost apoplectic when Medved threw out a few well placed debating points.
		Shales theory: They have heard it is violent, and they want to go see what the fuss is about.
	www.penraker.com /archives/000109.html (561 words)

	CNN.com
		Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller are here with the uncensored story of "Saturday Night Live." And then "Court TV" host Catherine Crier joins us to make her case against lawyers, and she'll talk about what you can do about a messed-up legal system.
		SHALES: Well it was a fluke because Johnny Carson had NBC -- the only thing NBC had been programming on, on weekends at 11:30 Eastern Time was Johnny Carson reruns, "The Best of Carson" and Johnny decided he didn't want those reruns on anymore.
		We are opening tonight with Tom Shales and Jim Miller, the coauthors of "Live From New York," an uncensored history of "Saturday Night Live" as told by its stars, its writers, and guests.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0210/27/lklw.00.html (6521 words)

	The Kerry Spot on National Review Online
		Tireless press critics during war or peacetime, the conservatives were handed a valuable new weapon when CBS News fumbled a report detailing the president’s shoddy record as a member of the National Guard back in Texas.
		CBS News announced formation of an independent panel to produce a report on the report (when it’s unveiled, conservatives are sure to circulate their own report on the report on the report) and, sadly, “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather moved up the planned date of his retirement from the anchor chair.
		Shales is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
	www.nationalreview.com /kerry/kerry200412281436.asp (306 words)

	Jonah Goldberg on Tom Shales & Bernard Goldberg on National Review Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tom Shales can write good movie and TV reviews.
		If I were Shales I would be mortified for having written it.
		The handful of half-points Shales makes are so dipped in irrationally bitter rhetoric they seem intended only to serve as moments of pause for him to catch his breath before the bitchy shrieking resumes.
	www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment010902.shtml (343 words)

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		Tom Shales is the chief TV critic for the Washington Post and has been the film critic for National Public Radio's Morning Edition since the program was created.
		While Shales denies that liberal bias exists in the mainstream media, his own critiques drip with disdain for conservatives.
		Shales also characterized the Patriot Act as "a piece of emergency legislation that has had the effect of trampling civil rights into mush," and called Fox News "a Bush cheering section."
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1197 (238 words)

	Tim Blair: SHALES WAILS
		Shales didn’t complain back in January, the last time a ton of garbage was spilled over “this precious public space”.
		Tom Shales is, and still for the most part remains, a sharp-elbowed and witty television critic.
		Tom Shales can be very funny when he wants to be.
	timblair.spleenville.com /archives/004032.php (992 words)

	Captain's Quarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Having read Tom Shales' review of the Republican convention thus far, I'm not sure whether to be encouraged or irritated.
		Shales obviously thinks that the GOP has managed to out-stage the Democrats in putting on "rubber-stamp" conventions, as if we have had any other kind in the last five decades.
		Shales seems to think that "in a time ruled by fear" that fear is all the Repulicans are selling at Madison Square Garden.
	www.captainsquartersblog.com /mt/archives/002392.php (3538 words)

	The Power of Crap Compels You
		Basically, Shales seems to feel that Rather was on to something and is being persecuted.
		Ex-Bush speechwriter David Frum (who was on the next segment) summed Shales up perfectly when Matthews ask him to comment on Shales' theory it was the Republicans who set the whole thing up.
		SHALES: My theory, they could very well have put the little “th” with the wrong thing knowing exactly which mistakes would be found, slip to some guy who is a little unhinged anyway, and there to CBS.
	powerofcrap.blogspot.com (1706 words)

	Medved on Zahn tonight debating the Passion with Tom Shales
		Shales at one point brought up Mel Gibson's father and said he was anti-semitic.
		TOM SHALES, FILM CRITIC, "THE WASHINGTON POST": Well, it's a little extreme, but so is his movie.
		SHALES: It's the whole way the Jews are portrayed and the Romans are given a kind of a "get out of jail free" card.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1098403/posts (3802 words)

	Saturday Night Enlivened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their comments illuminate the pressures the performers and writers felt in trying to relentlessly re-invent fresh comedy sketches week after week.
		Shales and Miller have wisely left the musical side of the show to another book and another time.
		That unevenness of story telling is something one expects award winning writers, like Shales and Miller, to be able to fix.
	medialit.med.sc.edu /snlive.htm (488 words)

	Life, Liberty, and Property - Tom Shales--Not Too Bright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The report was attacked virtually the moment it aired on "60 Minutes"; documents used to bolster the allegations were condemned by conservative critics as phony and forged, though no forging has yet been proved.
		Tom, if you think that the Killian Memo wasn't forged, then you also probably think that OJ was innocent.
		I'm not sure that I'd call each problem an error, but either Shales is a trying to re-write history or he's pretty dumb.
	www.dr5.org /mt/archives/000812.html (302 words)

	TheBookHaven.net - Live from New York - Tom Shales, James Miller
		With Lorne Michaels' cooperation, authors Tom Shales and James Miller have compiled an uncensored, detailed timeline of the beloved show.
		Those interviewed for this Shales and Miller work presented their experiences with incredible honesty.
		Shales and Miller have compiled an extremely in-depth written record of a show originally created because NBC had to stop showing
	thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Live_from_New_York.html (263 words)

	Press Release: Live From New York by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In LIVE FROM NEW YORK (Little, Brown; October 7, 2002), Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller bring together all the elements of the show-the backbreaking schedule, the manic energy, the outrageous personalities, the backstage rivalries, and the skits that kill—in the most complete history of Saturday Night Live ever compiled.
		Shales and Miller have captured key recollections of the pivotal moments of the show, on and off camera, that have become the legend of Saturday Night Live.
		TOM SHALES is the Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic of the Washington Post and a movie reviewer for NPR's Morning Edition.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/27/0316781460/press_release.html (630 words)

	Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller: Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live [2002] Shaking ...
		In fact, the book's chief flaw is that it never steps back to examine this stance, never dares to broach the idea that in a very real sense, SNL lost its manic edge with the departure of that original cast.
		Instead, Shales and Miller simply posit that since the show has lasted, reinventing itself again and again as a slightly edgy member of the sketch-comedy establishment, it is therefore important.
		Still, one closes its covers wishing that Shales and Miller had dared to produce more than an exhaustively compiled puff piece, that they'd opted instead to write a book less slavish in its devotion and more prone to ask tough questions.
	www.shakingthrough.net /books/reviews/2002/live_from_new_york_2002.htm (978 words)

	NPR : Star Wars, Through the Years
		NPR's Tom Shales revisits the soon-to-be-trilogy, and says the second picture in the series is "a major lark...
		Shales wraps up with a guarded endorsement: "The film can only be recommended to all human life forms existing in the universe."
		NPR film critic Tom Shales uses the occasion of the 1997 reissue of the first Star Wars trilogy, which added new scenes and effects to the original films, to rethink his positive evaluation of the series.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/starwars (602 words)

	TeeVee.org Books \| The TeeVee Book Review: Live From New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reading through Live From New York, Tom Shales' oral history of NBC's venerable Saturday Night Live franchise, I couldn't help but think of me. More specifically, I couldn't help but remember where I was the first time I saw SNL.
		So if you flip through Tom Shales' book looking for the name "Joel Stein," you will be sadly disappointed.
		In addition to interviewing cast members, Shales also interviews frequent guest hosts like Tom Hanks, whose son, Colin, will be playing me in a show I've created for television this fall.
	www.teevee.org /archive/2004/04/01/books-stein.html (455 words)

	'Saving Milly': An Aloof Treatment Of a Family's Loss (Tom Shales of Wash Post rips the movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tom Shales is a fat, repugnant, piece of Liberal garbage.
		Tom Shales did praise that hatchet job Reagan movie the same repugnant Liberal scumbags at CBS hyped.
		Tom Shales didn't like the movie because if he had wife going through that he would have bailed in a NY second.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1362239/posts (3624 words)

	Power Line: The void not left
		Washington Post television critic Tom Shales will miss Bill Moyers.
		Yet even Shales, who is paid to watch tv, admits he didn't watch Moyers very much.
		And, Shales assures us, Moyers was nothing if not virtuous, always taking the "high road" and playing "by dignified and gentlemanly rules." Except that, in last night's swansong, he compared the Pentagon's overseas information efforts to Mein Kampf.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/008956.php (284 words)

	Shales says 'SNL' special is a 'rip-off'
		Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales claims NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' in the 80s: Lost and Found is a rip-off of his book.
		Shales, who wrote Live from New York: An Uncensored History of 'Saturday Night Life' with James Miller, told the New York Post: It just seems like such a rip-off.
		Shales said an invitation to participate in the special was merely a sneaky way to diffuse me.
	feeds.bignewsnetwork.com /?sid=0bce66db18b57950 (285 words)

	NPR : Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
		Fresh Air from WHYY, October 8, 2002 · Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, authors of the new book, Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Little Brown and Company).
		Shales and Miller interviewed the shows' producers, writers, cast members and guest hosts, including Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Al Franken, Will Farrell, Tom Hanks and many more.
		Tom Shales is the Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic of The Washington Post and a movie critic for NPR's Morning Edition.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1151298 (190 words)

	PiratePundit: February 2005
		Shales, contemptuous of people who identify themselves as being family advocates, or simply a useful idiot for parroting (and in this case expanding) harmful myths?
		First, it is not a "victory" for anyone for Robin Williams to speak his idiotic bit instead of sing it.
		In any event, Shales takes the occassion of reporting a movie awards show (in which religious people had to watch themselves be made fun of in various ways) to, well, further demonize religious people through the clever journalistic technique of lying.
	courtzero.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_courtzero_archive.html (3716 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Live from New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shales and Miller went to great lengths to compile this work, but unfortunately, for this audio version, the oral history is read by stand-ins masquerading as Bill Murray, Lorne Michaels, Jimmy Fallon and others.
		Despite the obvious troubles of not having the book's contributors read their own parts, the book's content is terrific, with tons of behind-the-scenes gossip and juicy tales of backstage goings-on.
		Given access by Lorne Michaels himself, two journalists with TV connections Miller has produced two TV series, Shales is TV critic for the Washington Post recount this show's 25-year history.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1565115244 (1280 words)

	CNN.com - Tracing 'SNL's' political humor - Oct. 30, 2002
		SHALES: Well, Jim [co-author James Andrew Miller] and I have a favorite sketch of all time, which was a Republican primary debate.
		SHALES: Well, there was a period of five years there, when [producer] Lorne [Michaels] and the original group left, [that] Dick Ebersol, who was the producer for most of that time, was not as enamored of political humor as Lorne was.
		SHALES: I think because of 9/11 and other things, I think that he's gotten through pretty easily so far.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/30/cnna.snl.politics (856 words)

	TV Review by Tom Shales -- Washington Post
		O'Brien's sheepish underdog act had already worn thin before he got on the air, from promos and appearances on other shows, but virtually the whole first program was built around it; the show was about the show.
		Participating in this protracted wheeze was anchor Tom Brokaw, who greeted O'Brien at an elevator and threatened him by crushing some soda crackers and blowing the crumbs into the air.
		For the record, the Max Weinberg Seven, who provide the music, seem one of the best talk show bands going, but they could be the New York Philharmonic and not be able to save O'Brien from himself.
	nbckicks.tripod.com /never.html (650 words)

	RatherBiased.com \| News \| Tom Shales, Pathetic Hack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		True, we've been very harsh on Dan, but if Shales is content to call us right-wing, he really should call Rather left-wing since Dan has gone hard on Republicans.
		Tom Shales, the veteran TV critic at The Washington Post, had an idea who that young anchor might be: “Bring over Anderson Cooper from CNN, where he is languishing,” he said.
		Shales also said he’d fire CBS News president Andrew Hayward and replace him with Dan Rather.
	ratherbiased.com /news/content/view/777/2 (607 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Live From New York" by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
		Yes, the book is "uncensored," and to their credit Shales and Miller allow Michaels' detractors -- such as Chris Elliott and Janeane Garofalo --to tee off.
		Throughout the show's impressive 27-year run, which includes more than 500 episodes (and what must be close to 3,000 skits), the behind-the-scenes story of "SNL" has always been about how a group of frighteningly talented and often highly insecure people scrambled to land precious on-camera time each week.
		Frequent "SNL" host Tom Hanks, on tricks of the trade: "The secret of being the host of the show is to concern yourself only with the monologue.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/10/09/shales/index1.html (949 words)

	Welcome to The Darkside : EXCLUSIVE FROM PAGE SIX IN THE NY POST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		October 31, 2003 -- THE writers of "The O.C." have exacted revenge on Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales.
		After the Fox drama about sexy Orange County, Calif., teens premiered in August, Shales called it "breathtaking in its imbecilic banality," a "moody, moon-faced trifle," and said it deserved to be canceled before the fall shows premiered.
		I was promised fish sticks.' So I'm grateful that any reference to me has nothing to do with being fat.
	www.greatestjournal.com /go.bml?journal=_the_oc_&itemid=7260&dir=prev (130 words)

	Disputations
		Sharing space with the Tina Brown column was TV critic Tom Shales's review of the State of the Union speech.
		The man who likes to speak, as he did in this speech, of America's great "compassion" and who has been holding forth loudly of late on the sanctity of freedom apparently believes both compassion and freedom should have their limits.
		Mostly that Shales was writing on deadline, I suppose, and threw the first brickbat that came to hand, however absurd it might be.
	disputations.blogspot.com /2005_01_30_disputations_archive.html (2541 words)

	Tom Shales: Gibson's "Space in Hell Has Already Been Reserved" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Writer Tom Fontana, whose impressive credits include the uncompromising "Oz" on HBO, has Pontius Pilate's wife tell her husband, as the assassination of Jesus is plotted on Palm Sunday: "Fix it so the Jews themselves are held responsible."
		Shales becomes the proof of his own assertion.
		Tom Shales, listed in the exceprt here as a Style columnist, is the TV critic for the Compost.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1093431/posts (1910 words)

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