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If We’re Truly In A Health Crisis Again, Put Your Money Where Our Mouths Are
My mom, rest her tortured soul, didn’t offer much sage advice during her truncated life that has stuck with me at all lo so many decades later. But two, usually delivered with a gravely, scolding tone, do still stay ingrained in my essence: Cover your mouth when you cough. If you have nothing nice to
The Worldwide Liar In Sports?
I’ve never worked for ESPN, but plenty of really talented and decent people I’ve known personally, some from college and some from professional alliances, have. Some still do, though in recent years that list has diminished significantly. I especially miss the ones who routinely handed out branded swag like Tic Tacs at various events they
Scarce As A Peacock?
You wanna see the defending Super Bowl champions, the stars of the current in-season iteration of HARD KNOCKS and, much like the Golden Globes, a possible glimpse at Taylor Swift? On a Saturday night in mid-January, on a holiday weekend, when it’s damn cold around most of the country, even the exurbs of Los Angeles?
When The Fish Stinks From The Top, How Does Gutting It Help?
Happy New Year indeed. If you are or happen to know any of the approximately 500 employees of the media companies of Amazon who woke up on the tenth day to learn they were no longer employed, you probably are adding a couple of additional NSFW adjectives between the words Happy and New. Look, all
It’s The New World’s Fair. And A Few Good-Excellent Things, Too.
I actually recall the wonder and awe of the World’s Fair that took place mere blocks from my childhood apartment sixty (gasp) years ago. If you’re of a certain age and geography, you might as well. Some of my fondest and earliest memories were of the many exhibits that promised the world of tomorrow. The
A Rare Chance To Learn Why Something Went Right
The 2024 Golden Globes are in the books, and to many who consider themselves keepers of the flame, it was a horrific viewing experience. A good deal of that opinion was driven by the opening monologue of a previously obscure comedian named Jo Koy, who managed to tick off not only almost everyone with a
For GSN, The Games Are Still Played ON The Screen
There’s a new TV series premiering tonight, and I highly doubt they’ll be too many places that will consider it big news. It’s a basic cable network premiere, which is a world where in the pecking order of viewing and promotion priorities these days is a very distant third behind streaming and broadcast. It’s a
The Penske Bowl Should Feature Some Hail Marys
Hollywood’s awards season kicks off at long last tonight in Beverly Hills with the Golden Globes, trying to be a phoenix rising from the ashes of mismanagement and reportedly corrupt and biased voting to try and regain some lost relevance and significance. The ASSOCIATED PRESS’ Jake Coyle gives a nuanced, even-handed narrative: The Golden Globes are back
Help Me, Internet, You’re My Only Hope
I’ve spent decades assisting dozens of media companies and hundreds of executives achieve optimal results. I know there are many who would dismiss that as a word salad, but if you actually walked a mile, nay, a few steps in my shoes, you’d know in a heartbeat that every single syllable of that self-assessment is