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Get Off The Internet!

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

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Media Musings

It’s Rarely Fun When The Money Guy’s Around

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

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Life Lessons

You Are The Weakest, LinkedIn. Goodbye?

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

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Media Musings

Finally, A REALLY Good Reason To Watch CNN

Back in the days when I had both disposable income and frequent travel, I was determined to squeeze in a Broadway show on every New York business trip of more than 48 hours.  At one time the most prominent ticket broker in the theatre district just happened to be named Leblang’s Tickets, and an old

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Sports Summises

Congrats, “Pro” Athletes. Now Maybe You Can Stick Around A While?

It was a most atyipically celebratory day on college campuses nationwide yesterday.   Let’s face it, with graduation month all but over on most of them, how crowded with actual students do you suppose they were on a Friday afternoon in June?  Let alone the special ones who were actually impacted by the news that THE

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Media Musings

Seriously, Aren’t You Sick Too?

I’ll apologize up front to those of you who actually care that I’ve been even less than 100 percent than usual lately.  My stomach issues have become more frequent and painful and it seems things that used to be ok are becoming more problematic.  Last night, a piece of broiled salmon coupled with a sip

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Media Musings

How Much Freaking Shrimp Did You Serve Them Bros?

Like quite a number of people who follow this stuff, I was practically incredulous when we learned what the Democrats’ most recent investment into somehow cracking the bro code produced for them.  POLITICO’s Elena Schneider was among those who broke said details yesterday: It “reaffirms what young men already think, that Democrats don’t want to

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News Notions

Nostra-Dumb-Ass Is Back?

When the news broke last week that Elon Musk’s days in Washington were over I almost felt bad for the dude.  Emphasis on the word ALMOST.  I mean, it’s hard to have sympathy for someone who celebrated the termination of thousands of careers with a chain saw and a salute of questionable (at best) significance

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Media Musings

Tudum And Dumber

As many regular readers know, I am an unabashed supporter of Rick Ellis and his TOO MUCH TV newsletters, mostly because unlike most of his contemporaries, especially those who cash checks from a conglomerate called Penske, he’s unabashed and unfiltered and, more than often, spot on.  Someone who I dare say I share many of

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