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For The Last Time, It’s NOT A Binary Choice!!

One of the reasons I pay a disproportionate amount of attention to sports and escapist entertainment is that there’s only so much bandwidth even I have for the urgency, determination, desperation and incendiary rhetoric that an election cycle tends to produce.  And even though I don’t live in a swing state, I still get more

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Media Musings

A Lukewarm Adieu To Automne In Cannes

While most of us were otherwise preoccupied with our mundane day-to-day lives and having to endure endless and increasingly desperate-sounding political ads and texts, the lucky few who still have tentacles to international television got to escape to the spectacular environs of Cannes this past week, for what was perhaps the final incarnation of the

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Media Musings

What Happened At The LOS Angeles TIMES May Or May Not Have Been Right. But It Should Have Been Expected.

There’s a lot of outrage being leveled at what I have frequently referenced as the Left Angeles TIMES lately, and for a change it has nothing to do with the otherwise omnipresent issue that seems to obsess the gang of remotely based “experts” routinely devoting thousands of words to the latest “alarming” wastewater trends. Here’s

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Media Musings

It’s A Nice Start. But It’s Not Magic.

I get that it’s sort of a slow news cycle in the silly little world of media.  The fall TV premieres have pretty much all gone down, the handful of significant holiday theatrical releases (thanks again, AMPTP) are still a way’s off, the dealmakers are partying it up on the Croissette at MIPCOM this week

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News Notions

It’s Time To Vault These Polls

My roommate is a particularly giddy mood these days, as he continues to become more convinced that his choice is all but assured his second presidential term.  Much as that fact may be daunting to many of you, I can’t say he’s wrong.  Thanks to his virtually nonstop blaring of FOX News and FOX Business

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Sports Summises

FOX Finally Gets The Series They Wanted

NOTE:  This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com.  Please visit it regularly for musings of sports of all sorts as well as the portfolio of content from Binary News. I rejoined FOX shortly after they had obtained the rights to broadcast major league baseball.  As I made the rounds of offices of

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Media Musings

A Duel Likely To Produce No Winners

Just in time for the 2024-25 NBA season, and early enough in the NHL and college seasons to be forgiven, sports TV is getting yet another rebrand.  USA TODAY’s media reporter Mark Giannoto broke the news to his handful of readers last week: Bally Sports is no more. Diamond Sports Group announced that it will

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