That Sputtering Sound You Hear? Another Press Tour Revs Up

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It's Time: Kill the TCA Press Tour [Rants]
Published 7/9/2008 by STV at Defamer
... who have ruined the bed-in between networks, stars and the writers who love them (until the expense account runs out, anyway); we're learning more today about why the TCA tour may have bottomed out earlier than predicted, featuring an opening cavalcade of virtually uncoverable has-beens and hypocrites who don't bode well for the future of, well, anything. From the WaPo: ...

For Lisa de Moraes’s Sake, Please Don’t Cancel the TV Critics Tour!
Published 7/11/2008 at Vulture
... Her regular readers know that De Moraes is a master at deflating Hollywood gasbaggery, but her writing about the tour shows her off at her dismissive, unimpressed best. After dubbing the tour "The Thank God We're Working Summer TV Press Tour," De Moraes pointed out that Florence Henderson is too old to call herself a member of the "baby boom" generation, got irritated by Ed Asner, and started ...