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Your Money Or Your Lifestyle?
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Your Money Or Your Lifestyle?

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

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With Adolescence Eventually Comes Adulthood.  Usually.
Media Musings

With Adolescence Eventually Comes Adulthood. Usually.

I don’t have any kids, which I’m told both by folks who have them and especially those who knew my ex-wives I should consider to be a blessing.  More often than not, I’ve questioned if their counsel was merely apolegetic or perhaps far more of a reflection that they thank the stars that I didn’t

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It’s About To Get Funky Cold In South Florida Again
Media Musings

It’s About To Get Funky Cold In South Florida Again

It wasn’t a physical hurricane that hit South Florida this week for a change, but in the media world, particularly those with any vested interest in broadcast television, it was the equivalent.   The newspapers that still remain part of that ecosystem certainly covered it that way.   The MIAMI HERALD’s Devoun Cetoute, for one: WPLG-TV, known

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Exactly How Rotten Is This Apple?
Media Musings

Exactly How Rotten Is This Apple?

I’ll qualify this musing by admitting I’m more than a tad biased towards the good folk at Apple TV+.  I worked with many of them for years and I have immense respect for their taste and talents.  And if one were to look at the data from the smart TV in my living room you’d

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Throwing Money At A Problem Usually Doesn’t Make Things Better.
Media Musings

Throwing Money At A Problem Usually Doesn’t Make Things Better.

It’s quite likely Ted Sarandos has been at his current job longer and done it better than you.  VARIETY! took special note of his silver anniversary year by making the Netflix czar a cover boy of this week’s issue and gave him the conquering hero treatment in the process.  It took a two-on-one approach from

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AOC Ya Down The Road, Kid
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AOC Ya Down The Road, Kid

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

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End Of The Road(show)?
Media Musings

End Of The Road(show)?

The story of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group will someday soon make for some interesting subject matter for some advanced media strategy seminar at some university.  I oughta know, since when the most recent iteration of it was being put together I actually spent an entire class using it as a prime example of how to

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Seems Like A Lot Of Folks Want To Be A (Number) 69.
Media Musings

Seems Like A Lot Of Folks Want To Be A (Number) 69.

NOTE:  This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime.  Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology. Degenerate gamblers and lucky office workers (assuming you’re actually one of those unfortunates who are grudgingly trucking into one these days) can rejoice.  It’s officially March Madness season,

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