Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post who brought incisive and barbed wit to coverage of the small screen and chronicled the medium as an increasingly powerful cultural force, for better and worse, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Tom Shales, Pulitzer-winning TV critic of fine-tuned wit, dies at 79
He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary
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Updated January 13, 2024 at 11:46 a.m. EST|Published January 13, 2024 at 11:06 a.m. EST