David Zurawik

This photo from video provided by KNBC-TV shows demonstrators blocking Interstate 405 in West Los Angeles as protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police continue Monday, June 1, 2020.

Commentary: The news is horrible and frightening, but don’t tune out TV coverage now. Witness history

June 3, 2020 at 7:31 p.m.

More and more readers, friends and even some colleagues have been telling me that the news on cable TV is too disturbing to bear these days. And, so, they say...

Anti-Sinclair video montage scheduled to air in ad on Sinclair stations

December 14, 2018 at 4:16 p.m.

An anti-Sinclair ad featuring a Deadspin video that mocks the Baltimore-based broadcaster could start running as early as Friday on four of the company's stations including WBFF in Baltimore. That's...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘House of Cards’ Season 5 speaks to Trump’s America for better and worse

June 4, 2018 at 9:42 p.m.

Donald Trump might just be the end of Frank Underwood. That's the thought I kept having as I watched the 13 episodes of Season 5 of "House of Cards." There...

What an even bigger Sinclair might mean to democracy

June 1, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Sinclair Broadcast Group does two things very well. It knows how to run local stations lean and mean. And it makes some of the most visually engaging local news in...

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Drunk History’ version of Hamilton a delight

June 30, 2019 at 11:26 a.m.

"Drunk History" is almost always a subversive delight. But this week's edition with Lin-Manuel Miranda doing a bombed version of Alexander Hamilton's life is something special. Creator Derek Waters and...

Latest twist in Adnan Syed story makes it even more media mighty

August 21, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

The news today of a Baltimore judge granting Adnan Syed's request for a new trial makes what was already a remarkable story even more of a media juggernaut. Today's judicial...

Adnan Syed up close yet impersonal in new TV special

August 18, 2019 at 8:49 p.m.

The narrative of the Adnan Syed case is so compelling that each time I write about it, I have to remind myself that a real Baltimore teenager was killed and...

A collage of photographs of Hae Min Lee and her friends were on display at Lee's memorial service.

Rabia Chaudry writing book on ‘Serial’s’ Adnan Syed

June 1, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

Rabia Chaudry, the friend and advocate for Adnan Syed who brought his story to the attention of public radio's Sarah Koenig, is writing a book about his case. Syed, who...

‘Serial’ optioned for TV by Fox production company

June 1, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

Fox 21 Television Studios, a Fox-owned production company, has optioned "Serial" for a possible TV series, according to Deadline. The TV production would offer a backstage look at the making...

Former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann (right), heads to a VIP tent in the Pimlico infield at the 2015 Preakness.

Preakness overnight TV ratings down on NBC

June 1, 2019 at 8:58 p.m.

Overnight TV ratings for the Preakness were down year to year, according to Nielsen Media Research data provided by NBC Sports. Last year's Preakness earned a 6.0 overnight ratings, while...

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