Even as AMC was still airing the startling third-season finale of its addictive drama "Mad Men," bloggers and fans began reveling in the episode's revelations. In the age of DVRs, when so many viewers watch the show days later, should the TV community shut up until others get around to watching Don Draper tell Betty that...oops, sorry.
Once a show has aired, it's fair game: "I'm personally against spoilers," says Jace Lacob in Televisionary, because they ruin the surprise for everybody. But I was "rankled" when a reader berated me for failing to post a "spoiler alert" on an interview with "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner I published after the show's finale.
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