The wife and I just subscribed to Netflix. We’re a little late to the party on this one. We just finished watching the third season of House of Cards. My wife is sort of Claire to my Francis without the bisexual threesome with the Secret Service Agent (a MMF for those familiar in those sorts…
Is cheating rewarded in America? YOU BETCHA! Whether one cheats at cards, on their taxes, when playing sports or on a test, we’ve all done it. And if you deny it, you’re a liar too. By now, you all know about “Deflategate” and the Patriots playing the 2015 AFC Championship game with deflated balls. The…
We find ourselves living through another crisis to America’s confidence. “Deflate-gate.” Listening to sports talk radio the past week I was struck by the faux outrage of poorly prepared talk hosts and their disbelief that an NFL head coach and quarterback may have cheated. Shockingly stretching the rules to gain a unfair advantage. With billions…
Doesn’t the F.C.C. or Federal Communication Commission have something better to do like attempt to save the dying AM radio band? Good grief. The late comic George Carlin is rolling in his grave. Remember his “7 Dirty Words You Can’t Say on TV?” That case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The F.C.C. is now…
I’ve come to a realization. The “American Pickers” will be out of business if, in a few decades from now, they are “picking” items from the 21st Century. We throw everything away! Flat screen TV breaks? Put it at the curb. Dishwasher? Buy a new one. Computer? Some buy those and stick it in a…
It always amazes me the people, inside the media or outside, that believe there’s a higher purpose to what is being programmed, printed or performed. Believe me when I say this, it always comes down to money. A few years ago I spoke at a college journalism class in Columbus, Ohio and asked the students…
If you’re a tail end Baby Boomer like me, someone in their early to mid 50’s, you grew up listening to Casey Kasem each weekend on “American Top 40.” The radio show was a simple and easy to understand countdown concept. At its end, Casey revealed who that week’s champion was, the top artist and…
Historically, record companies, its labels and performers have had a pretty good deal with radio. Radio gives the labels free advertising for their songs, while the labels give radio the tunes to play free of charge, excluded music licensing fees that pay composers. A quid pro quo as they say in Latin. Or as they…
I am one of the last believers in AM radio. I love the medium. It kills me to see the shape it’s in today. It didn’t have to be this way. A number of months ago I wrote a blog that received a lot of positive and negative reaction within the radio industry. The FCC…
Just a few weeks ago the elderly (I’ll add senile and horny) owner of the Los Angeles Clippers got caught letting his true feelings be known regarding “people of color.” He doesn’t like ’em. Donald Tokowitz Sterling, thinking Maria Vanessa Perez V. Stiviano loved him and really wanted to perform on him (so to speak),…
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