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The White House News War: Forget Glenn Beck. Barack Obama is “Howard Beale.”
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Teeth are being gnashed. Gauntlets is gettin' thrown down like warm beers at a tea party. Over what? Beck, O'Reilly, and Limbaugh? Seriously?
Nobody saw this coming? Not since 1976 when the satire "Network" hit movie screens and won four Academy Awards?
More than 3o years ago, the fictional network boss Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall) cringed at [...]
I Fixed My Heart and Moved to San Francisco; Then Larry King Broke it All Over Again
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009To the 3 -4 people who once read this blog with regularity… I apologize for going AWOL. It was a pretty tough year, including minor heart surgery… if such a thing could be said to exist.
It also entailed a cross-country move. After 20 years in NYC I’d had enough and needed a rebooot. Just felt [...]
The Palin PR Lesson: When Your Narrative Diverges from the Facts, You’re in Trouble
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008The roasting of McCain and Palin continues. Just this afternoon former GOP strategists (now media commentators) Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy were caught on an “open mic” disparaging the Palin pick.
Murphy calling it “gimmicky” and “cynical.”
Noonan calling it “political bullshit:”
“I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives. Every time the Republicans [...]
Fox Business Proves Street Cred and Hypocrisy: White Cody Willard a Gang Member?
Sunday, April 27th, 2008At a recent media party hosted by the UK’s heavyweight newspaper The Financial Times, Fox Business host (and Financial Times columnist and successful capital markets investor) Cody Willard flashed a gang sign for the cameras.
Willard is described by Huffington Post columnist Rachel Sklar as friendly, chatty, affable, jocular, and a good sport… all in the [...]
Fans Want More Gay Kissing!! What Can a PR Person Say to That?? Seriously… What Do You SAY?
Monday, March 10th, 2008Hmmm…. it seems that some un-Godly fans of the P&G sponsored afternoon soap opera “As The World Turns” have started a letter-writing, protest campaign because they want to see more gay kissing, according to a recent article by the Associated Press.
It provides an interesting juxtaposition against today’s absolutely stunning! and shocking! revelation that a GOP [...]
A White Guy’s View of the “Hot Ghetto Mess” Mess
Sunday, July 29th, 2007(I refuse to give credentials in order to speak, though I got plenty. And to those of you who discount anything any white person says, no credential will ever be enough. So you really just ought to click the “back” button and read something else.)
I’ll start off by paraphrasing a sermon I heard at Watch [...]