David Zurawik

I believe they will be studying the TV trial of Derek Chauvin for years in both law and media schools.

“Klans are not running around with white sheets over their heads, but it’s still happening,” viewers are told in CNN's "The People V. The Klan" documentary. “Today, people are horrified of the police.”

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is dead to Fox, so he’s dead politically too.

The timing by DISH in the week of opening day is intended to maximize leverage in negotiations and pain for regional channels in the form of complaints from customers who suddenly find they cannot watch their hometown teams.

This week, the prosecution in the trial of Derek Chauvin on charges of murder found a way to make the original video of George Floyd's shot even more powerful and disturbing than it already was.

Here’s what bothers me: the way Fox News has been going all-out to oppose almost everything President Biden does, while still promoting some of the most dangerous lies from Mr. Trump.

The reason President Joe Biden understands the existential importance of the struggle between democracy and autocracy is that he’s living it every day at the personal level in an ongoing battle with former President Donald Trump.

Fox saying its election coverage was in the “highest tradition of American journalism” in response to the Dominion lawsuit is just too much.

“City on a Hill” is one of those series that makes television better ― or at least more relevant. Beyond its social relevance and power to challenge tribal thinking, it is fine entertainment.

This was not an over-the-hill, one-term caretaker at the podium Thursday. This was someone who seemed not just fit for the many known challenges of today, but also the unknown and perhaps even bigger challenges of the future.

The challenge for the mainstream media is to cover Mr. Biden just as tenaciously as we tried to cover Mr. Trump when there were surges of immigrants during his administration.

As you see and hear these stories of suffering and loss, you might wonder why anyone would not try to get the vaccine or not wear a mask.

The power of the film is found in both the poetry of its imagery and the deep, cultural context and analysis it offers of the African-influenced rituals that have branded New Orleans internationally.

It was not a good day in the media messaging war for President Joe Biden as his 'Help Is Here' photo-op lost out to news coverage of child and teen immigrants at the southern border.

The most puzzling aspect of Mr. Biden's reluctance to engage directly with the national press is that he has developed a very effective media style. It's time Mr. Biden start meeting regularly with the press.

I have never seen and heard a TV production capture an artist’s sound or use music more movingly than “Genius: Aretha.”

Standing behind a lectern in the White House is not exactly a setting conducive to intimacy, but President Joe Biden seemed so sincere in calling for unity and asking every citizen to join the fight to beat COVID that leaning into the camera that way Thursday night worked for him.

Fox News and the Murdochs have been far too destructive to democracy for far too long. I once defended Fox on the principle of a free press, but they have consistently betrayed that value since.

Oprah Winfrey touched all the bases that mattered in her interview with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, that aired Sunday night on CBS.

If you are disappointed by President Joe Biden's unwillingness to call out Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, wait until you see "The Dissident." It will make you livid at our hypocrisy.

Don’t let TV control what you think about COVID-19 and the year we have survived amid it. This is too profound and existential a moment for that.

Former President Donald Trump's CPAC speech showed he has not gained an ounce of humility from his defeat or the death of five people in connection with an insurrection on Jan. 6 that he instigated. This was Mr. Trump in rally mode as reckless with the truth and, therefore, as dangerous as ever to democracy.

This is the Trump TV show, the current and future Republican Party, home of the Big Lie. And it is all on display this weekend. Watch and weep for the future of the country.

If all the debut episode of “Soul of the Nation” did was provide a prime-time showcase for ABC chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas' interview with Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn it would still be one of the most important new network series of 2021.

As a media critic, I have developed a pretty high tolerance for hypocrisy. But seeing Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, Tuesday questioning law enforcement authorities about Capitol security was too much for me.

Don’t blame the mainstream media if you are getting your COVID analysis from Fox’s Sean Hannity instead of CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and you are confused. Try making better media choices.

There is a sense of belonging to a city and community when you see local TV providing storm coverage. You don’t feel you are in it alone when bad weather disrupts your daily routine.

How do you cover someone who has shown his desire to destroy democracy as Trump did on Jan. 6?

I’ll take the empathy and respect for citizens that Joe Biden displayed in his CNN town hall any night of the week over the loudmouthed, act-like-you-know TV style of his predecessor.

MAGA media has moved even further right as I predicted, but I wouldn't have guessed Fox News would come crawling back to Donald Trump as did during impeachment hearings.