Sunday Late Night: I want my MDTV!

Maureen Dowd went to her eye doctor this week, shopped for makeup in Georgetown, and chatted with her MSNBC pals about making HDTV promotional adverts.  Norah O’Donnell had baby-spitup on her dress that no one but the HDTV camera could see.

And David Shuster took off his pants.

Out of this she wove Sunday’s column.  This is what passes for liberal/snarky political/cultural  commentary on the New York Times’ most influential op-ed real estate nowadays: an attempt to gender-deconstruct America’s love affair with HDTV that, sadly, falls apart when Dowd tells us that both male & female on-air talent despise what the new cameras do to their skin.  And "that high-def acts almost like an X-ray to show the slightly bluish tinge of some fillers or the lumpy bumps and ripples from fillers and surgery."

Did I mention that David Shuster took off his pants? 

Gauzy, fuzzy and with less acuity — that’s how Maureen Dowd tells us she likes her world.  Isn’t it wonderful that The New York Times still pays her to share that wonderful world with us?  I bet her eye doctor, the Georgetown Sephora, and Armani all appreciate their brand-name-drops into Sunday’s column, too.

Nothing like a little product placement to catch a reader’s eye.   Oh, and David Shuster’s pants.

Related posts:

1. Sunday Late Night: Other Guys’ Wieners
2. Late Night: Letterman Show Goes on Despite Angry Mini-Mob of 50
3. Sunday Late Night: Stupak, Defined
4. Sunday Late Night: Let Her, Man
5. Sunday Late Night: Tiny Chamber Music