Shales admired nothing so much as ambition, but he also managed the feat of having high standards about lowbrow things. By Jason Zinoman “How-word Co-sell — you heard the bell and you came out talking ...

Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79. The cause was complications from covid and renal failure, ...

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Is Tom Shales the Washington Post’s television critic? Or not? Rumors have been circulating through the Post newsroom that Shales would be done on December 31. After reviewing television for most of ...

This is FRESH AIR. Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales, known for his biting wit and for never holding back and expressing his strong opinions, died on Saturday from complications of ...

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The heyday of Tom Shales is almost inconceivable now. One critic dominating the entire television industry, watching everything and passing judgment on virtually every program and newscast, is ...