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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPulitzer Prize-Winning TV Critic Tom Shales Dies at Age 79
Pulitzer Prize-Winning TV Critic Tom Shales Dies at Age 79
FAREWELL SPECIAL
In more than 40 years reviewing television, he never pulled his punches.
Edith Olmsted
Breaking News Intern
Updated Jan. 14, 2024 3:58AM EST / Published Jan. 13, 2024 12:32PM EST
Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales died on Saturday in Fairfax County, Virginia. According to his caretaker Victor Herfurth, Shales died after experiencing complications from COVID-19 and renal failure. He was 79.
In 1977, Shales became The Washington Posts chief television critic, and in 1988 won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, making him the fourth tv reviewer to win the award. His columns never pulled their punches, but Shales didnt concern himself with the ire theyd attract from whiny television executives. People who respect TV are the ones I respect, he said. Its the ones who wipe their feet on it whom I probably write nasty things about.
The former president of CBS News Bill Leonard once told Time magazine that Shales used the English language like a sword to punch holes in whatever he feels like punching holes in.
Shales took a buyout from the Post in 2006, but remained on contract for another four years.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning TV Critic Tom Shales Dies at Age 79 (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2024
OP
At my newspaper, I had to occasionally copy edit his stuff when it came in on the wire.
ificandream
Jan 2024
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2naSalit
(87,201 posts)1. ...
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,172 posts)2. Damn...
He wrote some memorable reviews.
mountain grammy
(26,710 posts)3. I knew him in college
Witty guy.I knew someday hed win a Pulitzer. He was a couple of years ahead of me. Rest in peace Tom.
ificandream
(9,461 posts)4. At my newspaper, I had to occasionally copy edit his stuff when it came in on the wire.
Great writer. Glad he never dumb enough to cross over into the Fox dark side like Howard Kurtz did.