In the same manner that your local big box store somehow begins stocking back to school merchandise on July 5th, Halloween costumes on Labor Day and Christmas decorations around Rosh Hashonah, Hollywood studios have effectively declared May Day as their kickoff to summer. Mind you, there’s no official holiday anywhere in sight, college students are … Read more
The result of the 151st running of yesterday’s Kentucky Derby was simply way too low-hanging fruit for most publications, and those that love to overreact to them, to ignore. The creative ATHLETIC duo of Alex Kirshner and Sam Settleman took the bait in this morning’s PULSE newsletter: Sovereignty used a late surge to pull ahead … Read more
It’s been one of THOSE weeks, one that’s had a disproportionate amount of pressure and emotional turmoil. Plus a few of the teams that I follow with some emotional investment saw their post-seasons end, meaning the ability for me to find some sort of escape hatch with them is gone for the summer. So trust … Read more
I’ve made a career out of studying and knowing as much as possible about folks from generations other than mine, and I wouldn’t be alive without the connections to folks significantly younger than me. Plus, much like my dad was, I’m blessed with a somewhat youthful-looking face that now that’s it’s unencumbered by greying hair … Read more
Were it not for the breaking news that dropped yesterday from THE WRAP’s Josh Dickey, I would still have missed a story that originally dropped more than a month ago that I frankly found pretty intriguing. So my bad, Sharon Waxman, for overlooking the expose your Umberto Gonzalez offered on March 20th which kicked off … Read more
Let’s not fool ourselves. This wasn’t the biggest story in media yesterday by a long shot. But I do know who many of my readers are and to them it was a big deal. And to me, it threw me enough of a curveball to remind me of how much things have changed, so anything … Read more
Contrary to the knee-jerk reactions of an unfortunately growing constituency of what I would have liked to think were friends of mine who immediately paint me as some sort of right-wing lunatic gone mad, I really don’t like the current leader of what at least for now is the free world. For perhaps the 100th … Read more
I do have some empathy for Eugene Daniels, as on a somewhat smaller scale I’ve been in his shoes. Daniels is the current president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, a side hustle with an industry trade organization that compliments his current role with MSNBC and his legacy with POLITICO. Without question, their most public-facing … Read more
Amidst all of the other distractions surrounding CBS these days, several of which we’re still being castigated for daring to muse about, there still remains the more mundane chore of actually setting a strategic course for what is still the most watched single media destination (sorry, You Tube, you’re a platform). And if one happens … Read more
I’m usually not someone who draws much from one-person focus groups that happen to be occurring inside my home. I’ve personally encountered far too many executives that have used those situations as what they perceived was actual research and made million-dollar decisions based primarily on them. My own career opportunities have been directly impacted by … Read more