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Media Musings

Is Right Wrong? Is Wrong Right?

I’ve spent a great deal of my professional career utilizing a skill set where I am able to synthesize and process information and opinions from hundreds, sometimes thousands of people, and dispassionately distill the material takeaways to invested parties.  I’m even able to do that when I have a room full of a dozen or

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Life Lessons

A Love Lettah To Barbra. And Barbara.

Dear Ms. Streisand, My humblest apologies. I initially had no intention of reading your recently released autobiography MY NAME IS BARBRA.  I had gotten some tepid feedback from friends who lamented plunking down $47 for nearly 1000 pages of your stories, many of which they found to be written from the perspective of someone who

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News Notions

Artificial Intelligence. Very Human Greed.

It’s been one heckuva yAIr–er, year, if you’re in any world that’s impacted by tech.  Which, means, of course, if you’re currently a citizen of Earth, and are an actual human being. If references to those kind of qualifiers seem either alarmist or simplistic, well, chalk it up to my relative naivity in all manners

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Media Musings

So What AM I Thankful For? You Might Be Surprised.

It’s Thanksgiving morning, and somehow, against increasingly escalating odds per actuarial tables that factor in exponential increases in stress and trauma into their equations along with mere aging, I’ve made it to another chance to wake up with the Macy’s parade, use football as white noise or distraction for the balance of the day and

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Media Musings

The Death Of Camelot. The Birth Of Breaking News.

It is with no small amount of gratitude coupled with a modest amount of shock that I can still recall with some degree of personal connection and accuracy the events of sixty years ago today.  It seems like a lifetime ago and as the years go on, the differences between the world then and the

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Media Musings

Se Habla Fascism?

A politically astute friend of mine recently confided to me that she is actively tuning out her usual fixation with newspapers, TV and social media, and she pointed out a couple of recent events as to why.  She is a proud “Nooyahrican” by her own definition and also has family roots with the Cuban community

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Media Musings

You CAN Go Home Again

We’re in the season where people are going home for the holidays, which in recent years has been more sporadic than it used to be.  It’s not cheap, way too many people have “safety” issues and, sometimes, it’s not all that desired an experience on either side.  For those reasons, sometimes years can go by

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Media Musings

Is Bad Publicity Better Than No Publicity At All?

There was once an era where the Sunday New York Times was far more important and ubiquitous than it is these days, and even on a normal Sunday it would be hundreds of pages and dozens of sections.  On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, with an overload of inserts from advertisers offering the beginnings of their

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