Alessandra Stanley Backhands Geraldo

New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley’s tastes are difficult to discern, but she is glorious in her wrath. We know that Stanley was not particularly fond of Diane Sawyer’s ”poised, creamy insincerity.” Nor was the television critic bullish on the Today Show camera’s leering fixation on Katie Couric’s legs. Today, however, in wielding her stiletto-like prose against Star Jones, Stanley lands a backhand swipe on everyone’s favorite journalistic punching bag, Geraldo Rivera, in the follow-through.