Archive for the 'Television' Category


Narcos

Are you watching this?? Somehow the TV industry has leveraged the power of the internet to hit a new high in quality. It’s as if after Napster we had the Beatles and the Stones, with Yes and Genesis to follow. That’s right, forget the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. That’s long after the fact. […]

The VMAs

I asked a powerful music PR man why the press never went negative on Taylor Swift. He said it was about access. As long as she was available, doing interviews, feeding the press stories, coverage would be positive. It’s when you clam up that the media goes wild on you. Which kind of explains why […]

John Oliver On Televangelists

There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear Those were the words of one Stephen Stills, written back in ’66, when the man tried to cramp the style of the youth, back before Pandora’s Box was paved over and everybody dashed for cash. How did that work out for the man? It didn’t. […]

Bill Simmons

Crawling from the wreckage into a brand new car Bill Simmons has edges. To the point where ESPN’s majordomo, John Skipper, decided to fire him. This is like the high school principal teaching you a lesson. Proving that no individual is as big as the institution. You had contempt for the administration at your educational […]