It was hard to keep a straight face when I saw this nugget that somehow qualified as breaking news in the cable industry come in from multiple sources yesterday. Even though it was written rather plainly, it was practically trolling that one such source was CNN’s Brian Stelter: As the cable news channel MSNBC splits … Read more
I spent a total of 15 years in the employ of companies owned by Rupert Murdoch, achieved some of the greatest professional success of my career and every single check I ever received cleared. I never worked directly for FOX News or The New York POST, perhaps two of the more notorious brands that he’s … Read more
I knew they had relocated DEAL OR NO DEAL to a tropical island. I had no idea they were doing new episodes on an Alaskan peninsula. When I staggered home yesterday to find Roomie perched in front of our communal TV eagerly anticipating the press conference that was to provide details for the Trump-Putin summit … Read more
I grew up in a New York Post household long before it became associated inexorably with the color red. The Post was THE afternoon paper during my youth, which meant it actually had the West Coast box scores and updated standings that all but the very last-delivered editions of the Daily News had, and on … Read more
I needed something stupid funny like breath in the summer of 1982. My grandmother had recently passed a mere 14 months after her husband did, proving at least to me conclusively that even elderly people can die of a broken heart. It did leave me with an opportunity to squat in her apartment, giving me … Read more
Hulk Hogan died earlier this week, yet another larger-than-life celebrity who transcended generations based on his earlier success as a performer and his later success as a reality TV personality. But unlike the similarly auspiced Ozzy Osbourne, whom we warmly mused about earlier this week, Hogan was the epitome of an enigma–a word that contrary … Read more
I finally got around to watching the season premiere of SOUTH PARK last night, though thanks to the dozens of stories that popped up in my inbox I already had a pretty good idea of what it was about. The fact that I still had the ability to even access it all on Paramount Plus … Read more
I get both amazed and agitated when I notice what seems to stick beyond the usual lifecycle of a few hours in this world of instant gratification and entitled ADD sufferers who have made sober-curiosity and mushroom/cannabis elixirs at $10 a can ubiquitous enough for even someone as seasoned as moi to be aware that … Read more
I’m thankfully not as invested as it sure appears an awful lot of otherwise respectable people seem to be in the apparent deep, dark secrets surrounding the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein, and in particular what notable people may or may not have been his friends, even if that may have been in the … Read more
At the risk of being redundant (yeh, I know, so out of character), it’s been a challenging weekend. I can’t begin to tell you how many people I know personally are somewhere between depressed and suicidal as a result of Friday’s scrawl, and yep, I do know a handful that lit off a few extra … Read more