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Chez Pazienza is the CEO of DXM Media, as well as an award-winning television news producer, the creative voice behind Deus Ex Malcontent and the author of Dead Star Twilight.

During his 19 years in TV news, he's produced and managed daily content for WSVN and WTVJ in Miami, KCBS, KNBC and KCAL in Los Angeles, and MSNBC and CNN in New York. He has two L.A.-area Emmys to his name as well as a Golden Mic. He's been featured in and interviewed by The New York Times, The New York Observer, New York Magazine Online, U.S. News and World Report, The Village Voice, The American Journalism Review, NPR, the IFC Media Project, and Radar and Wired Online. In addition, he's been a regular contributor to Sirius XM's POTUS and Indie Talk channels and is the co-host of "The Bob & Chez Show" podcast along with fellow blogger and Huffington Post contributor Bob Cesca.

He divides his time between Miami and New York City

Chez listens to a lot of Coltrane and old Afghan Whigs and still stands in awe of Paddy Chayefsky, who got it so right about where television news was heading.

Blog Entries by Chez Pazienza

The Bob & Chez Show 2/2/12

Posted February 3, 2012 | 2/3/12

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This week's show highlights: Romney Loves Trump; The Clown Car Gets Clownier; Badgering Newt Gingrich; Medicare...

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The Bob & Chez Show 1/20/12

4 Comments | Posted January 20, 2012 | 1/20/12

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This week's show highlights: Marijuana Legalization; Progressive Priorities; Newt Surges in the Polls; South Carolina and...

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The Bob & Chez Show 1/13/12

10 Comments | Posted January 13, 2012 | 1/13/12

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This week's show highlights: Mitt Romney is the Presumptive Nominee; The Weakness of Romney; Romney is...

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The Bob & Chez Show 1/6/12

8 Comments | Posted January 6, 2012 | 1/6/12

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This week's show highlights: We Launch on Washington, DC Radio (We Act Radio, 1480AM); Rick Santorum's...

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The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 12/2/11

Posted December 2, 2011 | 12/2/11

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This week's show highlights: Occupy Wall Street and the Homeland Security Conspiracy Theory; Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf Rumor-Mongering; Progressive Outrage; Twitter Fights; Bob Has 30...

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The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 10/28/11

Posted October 28, 2011 | 10/28/11

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This week's show highlights: The End of the Iraq War; The Vanity of Liberal Perfectionism; Compromising with the Republicans; Political Reality; The Right Doesn't Buy Votes; Pat Buchanan and His New Book; The Weird...

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The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 10/18/11

Posted October 19, 2011 | 10/19/11

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This week's show highlights: Special Tuesday Show! The CNN Republican Debate; Competitive Patriotism; Lapel Pins and Bumper Magnets; Right-Wing Talk Radio; Occupy Wall Street Is Not Anti-Capitalist; Wall Street Corporate Crime; Obamabots Article in...

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The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 10/14/11

Posted October 14, 2011 | 10/14/11

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This week's show highlights: We Introduce the Show to The Huffington Post Audience; Herman Cain and his Ridiculous 999 Plan; News Media Policy Coverage; Corporate Media Monopolies; Michele Bachmann and the Hero Worship of...

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Faith No More

Posted October 11, 2011 | 10/11/11

Well, you could've seen this one coming.

Chances are by now you're aware of the fallout from last week's Values Voters Summit, the annual event in which the hard-right Evangelical segment of the electorate gathers to throw King James Bibles at the feet of Republican leaders to see who will...

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Who's Afraid of Cenk Uygur?

Posted July 21, 2011 | 7/21/11

Well, as somebody who's never met a bridge he couldn't plant 600 pounds of explosives under, I'll say this for Cenk Uygur: The boy's got some industrial-sized balls on him.

Rather than even wait for a reported teleconference to explain his sudden departure from MSNBC, Uygur -- who always seems...

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The Politics of Murdoch

Posted July 18, 2011 | 7/18/11

For anyone still clinging to the Doocy-approved delusion that what's going on with News Corp at the moment really isn't all that big a deal and should be immediately consigned to the last news cycle and left there, a few daunting facts should knock you for a loop this...

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Defending Tracy Morgan

Posted June 13, 2011 | 6/13/11

I've been trying to figure out how best to approach the subject of Tracy Morgan, the comments he made during a recent show, and the angry reaction to them. I'll try to tread carefully since it's safe to say that every facet of this ugly miasma has a...

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What Anthony Weiner Knows: This Too Shall Pass (Quickly)

Posted June 12, 2011 | 6/12/11

You're never gonna believe it -- no, really, I mean, who could've possibly seen this coming? -- but Anthony Weiner is checking himself in for "treatment." The exact reason, no one knows and, let's be honest, barely matters.

Believe it or not, this latest development more than anything...

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The End of Daze

Posted May 21, 2011 | 5/21/11

So the Rapture turned out to be a bit of a bust.

There are no monster earthquakes, no oceans turning to steam, no fire shooting up out of the ground and, most sadly, no heathen dead rising from the grave to walk to earth in search of brains while Christians...

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Fault Lines: What We Say (and Don't Say) About Islam

Posted May 16, 2011 | 5/16/11

Chances are you're aware of this by now, but over the weekend there was a series of arrests in South Florida that the feds say breaks up a cash-funneling operation that was directly funding the Pakistani Taliban. It should probably go without saying at this point that any time...

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Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class

Posted May 12, 2011 | 5/12/11

Just a couple of days ago I was mentioning to someone how Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho inadvertently turned out to be the single best chronicle of the entire ethos of the 1980s. What was initially repudiated as relentlessly ugly, hyper-violent nihilism has, in hindsight, taken on a strange air...

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The Arrest of the Story

Posted April 29, 2011 | 4/29/11

I watched a live segment yesterday on the always entertaining Cenk Uygur's show on MSNBC and to be honest the guy and his producers really deserve to be called out on a couple of things.

Uygur was interviewing Nicole Sandler, the South Florida radio host who managed to get...

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Food Fighter: Freedom of Choice vs. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution?

Posted April 13, 2011 | 4/13/11

I'm always willing to cop to my somewhat retrogressive knee-jerk reactions, so here goes.

Last night I happened to catch a few minutes of the season premiere of chef Jamie Oliver's ABC reality series, Food Revolution. The basic premise of the show is that Jamie travels across America doing...

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The Big Mouths of Alexandra Wallace and Gilbert Gottfried

Posted March 15, 2011 | 3/15/11

Two very recent examples of people who let their mouths get them into trouble, and why the uproar over both -- the two being vastly different forms of expression -- is a little silly.

Battle: UCLA

One of my favorite stories at the moment -- meaning it's one that just...

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Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds?

Posted March 14, 2011 | 3/14/11

I'm not one of those people who jumps all over someone for making an imprudent comment, particularly not when that comment amounts to nothing more than a slip of the tongue. Thanks in part to our panoptic media culture, which includes the 24/7 cable news cycle, we've become far too...

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