It's Time: Kill the TCA Press Tour [Rants]

Published: July 9, 2008, 7:00 pm

Tags: rants, attack of the show, chandra wilson, gawker, kevin pereira, mark cuban, media, olivia munn, tca press tour, ted koppel, television critics association, top

As far as circles of hell go, we've already established you can't really do much worse than the Television Critics Association semi-annual press tours — the gaseous summer version of which is feeding the palms in Beverly Hills as we speak. But it's not just the bloggers and bitter ideologues who have ruined the bed-in between networks, stars and the writers who love them (until the expense account runs out, anyway); we're learning more today about why the TCA tour may have bottomed out earlier than predicted, featuring an opening cavalcade of virtually uncoverable has-beens and hypocrites who don't bode well for the future of, well, anything. From the WaPo: The day on which the Thank God We're Working Summer TV Press Tour got its start was one of singular euphoria. ... So thrilled were the critics with the whole still-employed/Beverly Hills/expense-account thing, they generously overlooked TV One following its first session, on racism in America, with one that kicked off with

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