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question of the day: What moment of television during your lifetime has been the most dramatic, or had the most impact on you?

Thu, Jul 12, 2012
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Mine is definitely 9/11, followed closely by the Challenger explosion. Both of those events had me riveted to the television for days and made me feel personally impacted…

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question of the weekend: What would be the equivalent of L.A.’s Carmageddon where you live?

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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It’s Carmageddon in Los Angeles this weekend, as a long stretch of a major highway in the perhaps the most car-crazy city in the U.S. — if not the world — is closed for some heavy-duty construction work…

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question of the weekend: Was it a good idea to pull the plug on SETI?

Sat, Apr 30, 2011
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You know how you always miss that call you were waiting for? Now the whole world will, too.

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question of the day: Is Ignatiy Vishnevetsky too young to host Roger Ebert’s new review show?

Tue, Jan 04, 2011
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The just-announced cohost of Ebert’s new review show is all of 24 years old. It means he was 10 or 11 when Christy Lemire, the show’s other host, starting working as a film critic. WTF?

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question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?

Thu, Sep 16, 2010
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Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…

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