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It’s High Time You Thought About Project 2025. And Perhaps Project 25 As Well.
Lately, not a day seems to go by where my roommate doesn’t offer his thoughts on exactly when Joe Biden will abdicate what he and his enablers believe is his throne to be the savoir of democracy. He seems to react to every eye-rolling “fact check” from both mainstream and biased media on Biden’s latest

Is It The House Or The Neighborhood?
David Stapf is considered to be one of the nicer and certainly one of the more loyal folks who toil around Hollywood, or at least the fringes where most of what’s left of the Los Angeles production business calls home these days. He’s been associated with CBS for a quarter-century, the last 20 in charge

One Buwwet Weft?!
We’ve spent a lot of time chiding and second-guessing the reign of error that has largely defined David Zaslav’s tenure running Warner Brothers Discovery. The trajectory was largely defined early on by this declarative statement as covered roughly two years ago by FRONT OFFICE SPORTS’ ubiquitous Jon Lewis: Discussing the rising cost of sports media

The “Problem” With Jon Stewart? Too Honest?
Like millions of people who share my demography, background and essential political leanings, I’m a huge fan of Jon Stewart’s, arguably more than I ever have been. And even though I wasn’t a regular viewer of THE DAILY SHOW when he built it up to a cultural touchstone when he was hosting it, well, daily,

No Right Or Wrong Answers. But Plenty Of Unanswerable Questions
Make no mistake about it, these are stressful times. Whether one looks at a thermometer, their devices or the occasional banner headline on what remaining newspapers of consequence still exist, it’s increasingly difficult to find something to absorb that doesn’t possess the ability to raise one’s blood pressure. But, occasionally, something does pop up on

Let The Shell Game Begin
Our long national nightmare–well, at least the one that may have been keeping Shari Redstone’s now-former employees awake–is over. UPI’s Paul Godfrey was among the many that broke the news earlier this morning: Paramount Global, the owner of Paramount Pictures, CBS television, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV said Monday it had accepted a $8 billion

Anything But Despicable
I haven’t been able to find much positive inspiration lately; certainly not in the last few days. And a holiday weekend devoid of the preponderance of summer blockbusters that once dominated multiplexes didn’t offer the cornucopia of welcome distractions from the world at large that often saved many of us from nervous breakdowns. But, thankfully,

The “Kingmaker” Behind QuiBiden
By my count, there are now at least three senior citizens of some prominence who are incapable of accurately understanding what the court of public opinion actually thinks about them. One, of course, is the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency, that esteemed golfing legend who lovingly referenced his opponent as a “broken down pile

Money Still Talks And Numbers Still Don’t Lie. Now, Perhaps, Biden Might Join Them.
Usually, the only night of television less devoid of anything worthy of watching beyond the 4th of July is the 5th of July. At least the 4th has been dominated by the Macy’s spectaculars, giving NBC a pyrrhic victory for little more investment than a bunch of cameras aimed at the sky. The 5th is