Oh, the things people say to you when you’re unemployed.  This is Week 8 for me, and it’s getting harder not easier.  One of the haters at ZeroHedge was right:  Let’s see how perky I’ll be feeling a year from now. But I am steeled by the comments I’ve heard since I left FoxBiz on […]

The Outrage Brigade is at it again, this time drawing a target on—and missing the entire point of—the satire of Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report.” It’s now trending on Twitter: #CancelColbert.  Good Variety story on it this morning, here: http://bit.ly/1eXxMhG Oddly, it is a mere 140-character (max) tweet, rather than the Colbert TV bit that […]

It’s always a delicate and difficult task when you’re a reporter covering media and you have to do a story on the media company that employs you. And so the ink-stained wretches at The Wall Street Journal can be forgiven for their tentative take on the real meaning of a stunner of an announcement on […]

Newsflash:  Apple is in talks with Comcast, the nation’s #1 cable giant, about starting a new Internet-based streaming service, The Wall Street Journal reports this morning.  Topspin:  I got three angles for you.  First:  Comcast shouldn’t do it.  Second:  This net-TV stuff will be far more difficult than expected.  And third:  Netflix be wary—your real […]

One of the most popular shows on television is AMC’s “Walking Dead,” replete with necrotic flesh, apocalyptic violence and the never-ending struggle just to survive.  Which could be a prescient plot line for the TV networks themselves.  For a decade or more we’ve heard that content is king, but now the King is Dead, or […]

Would someone please explain something to me: When did liberals get so utterly intolerant? To me, tolerance of opposing views, almost a kind of patient sympathy for those unenlightened individuals who just don’t get it yet, always had been a hallmark of liberalism:  Live and let live.  But in the Obama era, it’s Live and […]