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Can INDUSTRY Save The Industry? Hardly. But Perhaps The Other Way Around.
Far too often in my lengthy career I’ve been tasked with the unfortunate responsibility of having to tell extremely proud and dedicated creatives that their baby is, at least in terms of hard numbers, ugly. That’s an even less easy place to be in when more than a smattering of tastemakers, especially those with pulpits
Paper Covers Rock. What Will Rock Smash?
I don’t know about you, but it seems like whatever news is coming out of media companies lately is eminating from the Department of Redundancy Department. Yesterday yet another legacy company’s demise dominated the news cycle, as exemplified by what VARIETY’s Brian Steinberg wrote: Paramount Television Studios, a production facility originally aimed at getting Paramount
Tears On My Pillow. Still.
Well, I woke up on my birthday. Sorry to disappoint the person who continues to text me with threats for legal actions. So it may not be all that surprising to you that when I did wake up, after yet another sleepless night filled with stomach issues that thank goodness I am finally on a
Milestone Or Tombstone? Sometimes, I Wonder
So tomorrow I am scheduled to have a birthday. There’s still a few hours before it actually occurs (to be completely technical, it’s 4:10 AM Eastern time) so for those of you who might wish I don’t make it, rest assured you’ve still got hope. And I know there’s at least a couple of people
Now Is NOT The Time To Stand On Ceremony
Contrary to what many of you might be inclined to believe, I am very, very often incorrect about what I believe to be accurate. I do tend to push back when I am challenged by someone else calling it to my attention, mostly because on many of those numerous occasions it turns out that indeed
Maybe “Yakko” Doesn’t Need An Intervention. But A Reminder Of What Gets Buyers To Change Their Views Might Help.
So my one time (VERY briefly) colleague Linda Yaccarino is back in the news, and yet again, the outpouring of disbelief and sympathy from those who claim to know her far better than I do has been almost as newsworthy as the statement she made. As HUFFPOST’s David Moye attempted to empathically report earlier this
You Bet It’s A Ruthless Business. But For Some, That’s A Good Thing
I managed to find a little time yesterday to check out the season premiere of a show that somehow I had never seen before. But since I happen to know a couple of members of the recurring guest cast of TYLER PERRY’S RUTHLESS, I spent some time in the BET+ ecosystem. As it turned out,
It’s Time For This Dead Horse To Demand A New Jockey
I’ve taken more than a few jabs at the actions, decisions and attitude taken by Warner Brothers Discovery’s czar David Zaslav since he ascended to this throne two Aprils ago. While to Hollywood he was an outsider, he did help build an empire of profitable, distinct and popular linear networks in the relatively less glitzy
Still More Links To Past Success Are Going Away
The news that dropped yesterday afternoon on several media and even a couple of general business sites was neither surprising nor unexpected. But it still was a sobering reminder of the passage of time and more than a little personally upsetting when I read what the LOS ANGELES TIMES’ Stephen Battaglio reported: The media business