The news from CBS NEWS that came down yesterday produced many tears in that iconic Eye. DEADLINE’s Ted Johnson was among the many that broke the story: Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, said Tuesday that he is resigning from the venerable CBS newsmagazine, telling staffers he had lost his ability to make independent … Read more
My stomach has been hurting a lot more than usual lately, and I’m pretty sure it’s not totally due to my multiple surgeries. Whatever algorithms my media usage has triggered almost consistently results in my being greeted on landing pages with yet another lengthy, impassioned essay about how something that our current administration, often more … Read more
If I’m to believe the myriad of folks on my social media feeds, I’d be concerned that anyone still sporting Los Angeles Dodgers gear might now be as much of a target for ridicule–or worse–as anyone driving a Tesla. The Dodgers just happened to have their annual road trip to Washington this week and, like … Read more
Apparently today’s a really big day for some of my more politically active friends, and supposedly quite a number of strangers. Here’s how THE HILL’s Jared Gans spelled it out yesterday: Nationwide protests are set to take place Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration and its allies, with leaders vowing to stand up to … Read more
Congratulations to the Democratic Party on the good news you received Tuesday night. And it’s not the one that a great deal of you (us?) are crowing about. Apparently the hero of the moment is New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, at least according to NBC NEWS’ Sahil Kapur and others who reported glowingly on how … Read more
Optimism isn’t easy to come by these days, especially when even what one might assume to be upstanding, responsible and auspiced institutions reveal themselves to be little more than merely as minimally principled as anyone they might otherwise come out against. We thought we had a fighter in Maine governor Janet Mills, who even THE … Read more
To some of you, there’s no getting around one indisputable fact. By certain standards, I’m old. Forget how I believe I tend to think, which is often through the lens of how someone else thinks. Decades of training listening objectively to people in thousands of focus groups and disseminating reams of survey information from all … Read more
Sharon Waxman, the founder and publisher of THE WRAP, is one of the stronger voices remaining in the world of entertainment media, ready to take a stand on anything she determines may be undermining business or country. And she seems to have some very positive qualities. For one, she has no affiliation with any Penske … Read more
His name is Brian Glenn, and if you didn’t immediately recognize that name a couple of months ago, then consider yourself more grounded than you may have thought. Lately, it seems he’s becoming a lot more visible and prominent, if for no other reason than mainstream media can’t stop introducing us to him. Glenn’s real … Read more
It’s already afternoon on the East Coast and here in balmy LA the minority of apartment dwellers in my neighborhood who actually venture outside on occasion are already gone off to work or run yet another errand. I can tell because from where I sit I can see my street and I actually see vacancies. … Read more