No matter how much of a lull the media world may be in, leave it to the good folks at Nielsen to throw chum into the waters around this time every month when they release the first iteration of The Gauge, their “analysis” of media consumption that those that are still covering this beat immediately … Read more
It’s been pretty difficult in recent days for me to find something worth smiling about. I’m sorry, but I simply cannot take anything resembling a victory lap about how things went this past weekend. A few thousand neighborhood pep rallies with absolutely no impact on policy or the targets they creatively derided, or the fact … Read more
Yep, it’s definitely not the busiest time of year in the media world. Awards season deadlines have come and gone, upfronts and screenings have been held and the ensuing negotiations that come from them are still nascent. We’re only just now starting to see even summer schedules released, and the bigger theatrical gambits might be … Read more
Another Father’s Day, which for me is now the tenth that is being observed without my participation. And it’s doubly depressing for me since my father’s last cognizant breaths were taken on the last Father’s Day he was technically alive in 2014. While in a rehab center recovering from a second surgery in two months, … Read more
I’ve been accused, especially lately, of often being too focused on politics. Such critique is fair. When we first began musing just about four years ago, it was always my intention to merely incorporate such thoughts into their relevance to media and my life. But as any cursory search of any entertainment news aggregator this … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sports plus occasional essays on technology. At least on paper, I self-identify as a research consultant, and I’d contend in certain areas my level of expertise and experience would rival anyone, anywhere. … Read more
If you’re a regular reader you may have noticed that I tend to get melancholy when people who once were a vital part of my professional life move on. This is most definitely one of those occasions. Thankfully, the news that among others VARIETY’s Michael Schneider reported yesterday was merely a professional coda. But it … Read more
I’m truly exhausted to the point where it is literally causing me physical pain, so try and cut me a little slack if my usual level of intolerance for poorly executed strategies is a bit enhanced. I’ll confess to being right up there with the level that a good friend’ surly, ego-maniacal and significantly unqualified … Read more
I got this uncomfortable feeling of deja vu when the much anticipated news of yet another cosmetic divide of a struggling media company came down early yesterday morning. Here’s how CNN’s Brian Stelter reported it: Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two separate publicly traded companies – one oriented around the HBO Max streaming service … Read more
For those of you who have been fortunate enough to have secured a position in your chosen field within the last five years and change (a list regular readers are probably aware doesn’t include moi), show of hands, please? How many of you will testify and swear on a stack of bibles that the reason … Read more