Me thinks James doesn’t get out much.
Posted on 12/11/2022 8:46:00 PM PST by McGruff
New York Times television critic James Poniewozik declared in his end of the year review that the January 6 Committee hearings were the "most important TV of the year."
"It’s no insult to call this investigation, above, into the attack on democracy a TV show; that was its power and its accomplishment," Poniewozik wrote. "Deploying deft editing, story structure, graphics, suspense, social media virality and, yes, a touch of showmanship, the hearings made a public service into the show of the summer and the most important TV of the year."
Earlier this year, Poniewozik compared the hearings to a true-crime drama.
"The proceedings had familiar hallmarks, including live testimony and opening remarks from Mr. Thompson and from the vice chairwoman, Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming. But it was packaged like a prime-time news special
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Somebody’s enamored with Hollywood production values.
Cut my cable around 6 years ago so I don’t know squat about the hearings.
Me thinks James doesn’t get out much.
That’s amusing. I didn’t watch a second of it.
Thx, NY Slimes! Don’t know how I’d manage without you telling me what I should think!
Better than repeats of Cheers?
I think not.
Not only that, I don’t know ANYBODY who watched a second of it.
Do any FReepers know anybody who watched any of it?
Both “TV” the The Slimes already reside in the dust bin of History.
LOL! The ratings show otherwise. I’m sure the ratings of the final episodes of several TV shows were higher than the Jan 6th hearing. Only WaPo, NYT, CNN, and MSNBC were paying attention to them. The hearing were not going to change any opinions but instead were meat (or tofu) for the liberal masses.
It’s all fake theater and No one cares!
Does anyone have any videos of these witnesses getting cross-examined?
Yeah. Most important, least watched.
Should have been in the fiction category . . .
The New Yawker ahos need to get themselves a life. It’s the biggest fraud of the year. Pure booschitt.
That’s why nobody watched? Something doesn’t add up as usual at the NYT’s.
Nobody watched it but the hardcore fanatical Trump haters and no one even talked about it much either. If anyone did talk about it they'd ridicule it as the farcical Soviet style show trial it was.
LOL…I didn’t even know it was televised.
No one I knew ever talked abou it.
The Venezuelans on the Vineyard interested people,not Jan 6 .
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That’s my experience, too. People laughed at it.
Fixed it for you.
Not to mention the most PRESUMPTUOUS, PREPOSTEROUS, and PURULENT TV of the year.
Paul Ryan, Bret Baier, Cavuto and everyone else at Murdoch News who’s remained silent on the 2020 election, as well as the 2022 Arizona election, but NOT the J6 hearings agrees with The NY Times here.
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