The "Hills" star puts reality TV behind her -- with a novel about a reality star who just wants to be a normal girl
By Thomas Rogers Jun 19, 2009
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Soothing summer TV, coming right up! A handy guide to some televised offerings to sedate you as the mercury rises.
By Heather Havrilesky
May 31, 2009
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As he prepares to return to Iraq, the MTV reality show star discusses how it feels to be redeployed -- and to learn about it on camera.
By Caitlin Shamberg
April 1, 2009
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As blockbuster rapper T.I. heads for prison, his reality series prompts the nagging question: Can you really scare kids straight?
By Baz Dreisinger
March 31, 2009
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MTV's reality dinosaur (finally!) gets a trans cast member. How painful is this going to be?
By Thomas Rogers
January 8, 2009
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MTV's "From G's to Gents" pits thugs against one another to see who can become the most refined. But what does it take to be a gentleman, anyway?
By James Hannaham
August 4, 2008
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TV's dance marathon rages on, from the inspired kids of "So You Think You Can Dance" and "America's Best Dance Crew" to the inspired jackasses of "Dance Machine"!
By Heather Havrilesky
June 29, 2008
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Never mind the sex-tape rumors. "The Hills" ends another soapy season with a nod toward love.
By Joy Press
May 13, 2008
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Us Weekly hits Barack Obama with the hard question: Boxers or briefs?
By Carol Lloyd
February 28, 2008
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NBC's "Phenomenon" makes mincemeat out of magic. Plus: Whose acting is more skilled, Lauren of "The Hills" or Flower of "Meerkat Manor"?
By Heather Havrilesky
November 4, 2007
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MTV hired Britney Spears to make an ass of herself and she sadly complied. The humiliation continues.
By Rebecca Traister
September 12, 2007
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What's more American than cocker spaniels, doomed marriages and David E. Kelley? Plus: "Battlestar's" dark turn.
By Heather Havrilesky
March 11, 2007
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We demonize Mark Foley but ignore the industries medicating children and making them fat, and even open our schools to people trying to kill them -- military recruiters.
By Bill Maher
October 13, 2006
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A cartoon depicts black women collared, crawling on all fours and defecating on the floor.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 10, 2006
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We don't mean to be a downer on your 25th birthday, MTV, but when will you grow up? An open letter.
August 4, 2006
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MTV leads a former boy band member to the slaughter
By H.H.
January 10, 2006
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The race to become MTV's teen queen.
By K.L.
December 14, 2005
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Al Gore's TV network serves up compelling topics at a brisk pace -- there's just not enough to go around.
By Heather Havrilesky
August 2, 2005
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Secret memo reveals NBC's Brian Williams is GOP's new "go-to anchor." Tony Blankley's plan to make L.A. liberals spew their lattes. Plus: Still brooding over Janet Jackson's boob, Brent Bozell now discovers shocking depravity of MTV!
By Mark Follman
February 10, 2005
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Rush Limbaugh and other angry conservatives mock John Kerry and the Dems for hanging with hip-hop stars. But they're dissing a key (and mostly white) bloc of youth voters.
By Eric Boehlert
April 23, 2004
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MTV's "Newlyweds" serves up a riveting spectacle of jealousy, cluelessness and raw onions with its running battle between popster Jessica Simpson and boy-band hubby Nick Lachey.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 9, 2003
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Two hours into the Video Music Awards -- watching Madonna tongue-kiss Britney, Christina ape Cher, Eminem beat up a puppet -- I entertain a dark thought: Could this all just be an excuse for entertainers to shill their products?
By Neal Pollack
August 29, 2003
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Now that MTV has made pimping a cool lifestyle, is it surprising that suburban teenagers are turning tricks for mall cash?
By Bill Maher
August 20, 2003
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Watch as bastions of alterna-Jays and wannabe-Daves try to out-snark each other! Thrill as Tom Green battles the late-night TV glut, armed only with a pair of googly eyes and a mile-wide sociopathic streak!
By Heather Havrilesky
July 19, 2003
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Want the dimwitted fun of reality TV without wasting hours of your life watching crap? VH1's "Reality Wrap-Up" is here to save your day!
By Heather Havrilesky
June 12, 2003
The unbearable lightness of Lauren Conrad
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"The Real World's" Ryan speaks 
Crime, punishment ... and MTV
"The Real World" offers Transgenderism 101
My fair gangsta
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Finale wrap-up: "The Hills"
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Hit her, baby, one more time
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The real menace to American kids
Quarterlife crisis
Loser TV
Edge of "Seventeen"
Caught up in the Current
Right Hook
GOP "playa hatas"
Can this marriage be saved?
It's talk-show gridlock!
Reality rapture
GigaOM Network
War Room