Apr 13, 2024
Iran vs Israel and Trump
It is amazing and a great lesson in marketing that if one is prepared to outright lie it is a great advantage and nearly impossible to counter. In…
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Records were only the beginning; attention itself became a business.
I.R.S. expanded into film, television, publishing, live entertainment, and new forms of promotion because the audience never lived inside one medium. MTV, The Cutting Edge, I.R.S. Media, feature films, broadcasting, and brand partnerships all became parts of the same larger question: how do you make the public care?
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Feb 20, 2023
How soon we forget
This evening I had the misfortune of flipping across my TV channels and came across an interview between Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson on FOX…
Feb 20, 2023
A relief!
For those of us that were thinking that the Fox "News" hosts could not really be believing all the nonsense from the Trump camp about stolen…
Jan 30, 2023
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine of the NY band Television died last week at the age of 73. I had not seen Tom for many years but remember well when I organized the…
Jan 4, 2023
Goo Goo Muck!
Better Late Than Never. Glad to see The Cramps song Goo Goo Muck is getting the attention it deserves. Ivy does the guitar so hopefully she has heard…
Dec 26, 2022
End Game
US TV shows give a lot of coverage to Ukraine even as the disclosures of the June 6th committee keep coming. Some commentators mention the idea of an…
Dec 22, 2022
FOX
I have never been a fan of Tucker Carlson. Never trusted his practiced sincerity. He tells lies so well with a straight face that one can see why he…
Dec 16, 2022
Dec 16, 2022
The unfortunate truth of the war in Ukraine is that it is beginning to dawn on everyone that the only way to end it is the assassination of Putin…
Apr 18, 2022
Damned if you do damned if you dontl
Today of Fox News Kevin McCarthy was again trying to attack the Biden administration for not sending arms before the Russian invasion apparently…
Apr 12, 2022
Comedy
On my brief look at what Hannity was saying on Fox I was surprised to see he is still pushing the idea that President Biden is not all there and the…
Apr 4, 2022
Conspiracy
Conspiracy theories are all the rage these days. Trump still claims the election was stolen and a not insignificant chunk of the public believe him…
Apr 1, 2022
Info Wars
Russian mothers will at some point be told of their dead soldiers but most live far from Moscow so not of serious concern to Putin. BUT the word of…
Mar 16, 2022
Trump again?
It seems one can never escape from positive references to Donald Trump even when it comes to Ukraine. Fox "News"uses the war as a way to tout "what…
Mar 15, 2022
Squriming
In spite of the tragic events we see every hour on out TV screens inflicted by the Putin war on Ukraine, - taking a dispassionate view (if possible?)…
Mar 12, 2022
Oil vs. Renewable energy
There is a US midterm election coming up so Fox "News" devotes its narrative to attacking the Democratic President, Vice President and any other…
Mar 6, 2022
More know your history
From the 1100s, to the 1800s the main political dividing line in Europe was between England and France. By the end of the 1800s that dividing line…
Mar 5, 2022
Know your history
For many years of the past 50 years the world was divided neatly between two opposing points of view. A binary world in other words.More recently we…
Mar 4, 2022
Miscalculations
All through history major leaders have made serious miscalculations. It is easy to do. Give a leader a few successes and people around him will be…
Mar 3, 2022
Putin's speech
Earlier today Putin made another speech on Russian state media. Just like the last speech we heard his words and watched him saying them. According…
Mar 3, 2022
Lessons of history
There is not much good one can attach to the war in Ukraine but it does expose me to people with views that try to validate some of what Putin is…
Mar 3, 2022
Confused Logic
Someone should tell Sean Hannity that the US has NOT purchased any Russian gas/oil for the last two weeks. Russian oil accounts for 3% of annual US…
Mar 3, 2022
Media People
Blame for what is going on in Ukraine can be shared by many going back for many years. It goes to show that not dealing with an issue early can…
Mar 2, 2022
Who is Doug Macgregor?
FYI, I just watched a FOX useful idiot Tucker Carlson interview with a retired Colonel, Doug Macgregor claiming him to be a non-partisan, truth…
Mar 2, 2022
Hannity
As usual Sean Hannity can only say over the top negative statements about the Democrats and President Biden. I wish he was not so predictable. I…