“Notes to John”: https://shorturl.at/PJFLg 1 This is an utterly astounding book that should be read by everybody. I must admit, I am not a huge Joan Didion fan. I loved “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” but found “Play It As It Lays” flat. As for the vaunted books thereafter, I found them dense and mannered and thought […]

You NEGOTIATE! Which is how we know that CBS canceled the “Late Show” for political reasons. Let me see now… You take a top producer, a revenue positive show, and you cancel it willy-nilly? Let’s say income is down. Then like the news outlets, you renegotiate the contracts with the talent, you give them the […]

PASSION If you don’t believe it, we won’t. Passion trumps everything but craft. Once you have the skill to deliver your message, it becomes completely about how you deliver your message. This is what is absent from TV competition shows, this is what is absent from too many songs in the Spotify Top 50, this […]

This is society’s Napster moment. They never could kill P2P with the legal system. It took a bright twentysomething from a foreign country to save the record labels’ lunch. And now said labels are trying to survive by purchasing the distribution systems of much younger companies led by entrepreneurs. NO ONE running a major label […]