{"id":604732,"date":"2024-01-14T04:37:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T01:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/washington-post-tv-critic-was-79\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T04:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T01:37:38","slug":"washington-post-tv-critic-was-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/washington-post-tv-critic-was-79\/","title":{"rendered":"#Washington Post TV Critic Was 79"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Tom Shales, a Pulitzer-winning television critic at the Washington Post who spent nearly 40 years at the publication, has died. He was 79. <\/p>\n

\n Shales died Saturday at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va., from complications due to COVID-19 and renal failure, his caretaker, Victor Herfurth, told the Washington Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n Shales began his career as the Post\u2019s chief TV critic in 1977, and was known for his incisive and sharp commentary on various forms of television such as cable dramas, network sitcoms, nature documentaries and late-night shows. He was first hired by the Post in 1972 as a style writer. <\/p>\n

\n In 1988, Shales won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, becoming the fourth TV reviewer to earn the honor in journalism. <\/p>\n

\n Shales took a buyout from the Washington Post in 2006, but remained on contract for an additional four years, according to the paper<\/a>, \u201cbefore being,\u00a0in his view, unceremoniously edged out because of a salary of about $400,000 per year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Thomas William Shales was born in Elgin, Ill., on Nov. 3, 1944. He attended Elgin Community College before transferring to American University, where he became the editor-in-chief of the student news<\/a>paper. <\/p>\n

\n After graduating in 1968 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, Shales worked as an entertainment editor at the D.C. Examiner until the early \u201970s. <\/p>\n

\n In addition to his work for the Washington Post, Shales wrote for the Huffington Post, TelevisionWeek and Roger Ebert\u2019s film and television review website. He wrote two books \u2014 \u201cLive From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live\u201d (2002) and \u201cThose Guys Have All the Fun: \u201cInside the World of ESPN\u201d (2011) \u2014 with fellow Post reporter James Andrew Miller. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tom Shales, a Pulitzer-winning television critic at the Washington Post who spent nearly 40 years at the publication, has died. He was 79. Shales died Saturday at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va., from complications due to COVID-19 and renal failure, his caretaker, Victor Herfurth, told the Washington Post. Shales began his career as the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GettyImages-102976132.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}