Mediagazer: An Article on Shonda Rhimes Rightly Causes a Furor (Margaret Sullivan/New York Times)

9:00 PM ET, September 22, 2014

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

An Article on Shonda Rhimes Rightly Causes a Furor — The article on the television producer Shonda Rhimes hadn't yet appeared in Sunday's paper, but the virtual world was ablaze in protest over it on Friday after it was published online. — Written by the longtime TV critic, Alessandra Stanley …

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