Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Unscripted

“Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy”: https://amzn.to/3lehXP5 He called his daughter the c-word, on more than one occasion. I’d tell you that’s all you need to know, but there’s more, much more. I only picked up this book because it was co-written by James B. Stewart, author of […]

The Oscars

The stars aren’t sexy. I’m not talking about physical appearance, I’m talking in advertising terms. They’re no longer special. They’ve been demoted image-wise. And traditional media doesn’t want to admit this. Want to know who’s a star? Greta Thunberg. Because she believes what she says, irrelevant of whether you agree or not. You see the […]

Mailbag-Rossington/Maher/Nile/Kooper/Ticketing/Smith/Raitt

GARY ROSSINGTON/LYNYRD SKYNYRD In April of 1987 I was working with Alex Cooley and Peter Conlon promoting concerts in Atlanta and still doing a little management. My old friend Gary Rossington and his wife Dale Krantz Rossington called me to say Amber Ertegun suggested they talk to me  about me managing their band Rossington. We […]

Re-Bill Maher

Thank you for calling out Bill Maher and his nonsense.  Over the years he has gone from modestly funny to an old man screaming at a cloud, ranting constantly about “wokeness” being the thing that will destroy our culture, while mostly giving the people who are actively trying to destroy democracy a pass.  Sure, some […]