Tom Shales Quotes


Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.


Citations

Shales, Tom. "Tom Snyder, A Master of the Medium." The Washington Post, 31 Jul. 2007.

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  • Born: November 3, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Critic

Thomas William Shales is an American writer and critic of television programming and operations. He is best known as the television critic for The Washington Post, for which Shales received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1988. He also writes a column for the television news trade publication NewsPro, published by Crain Communications.