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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

That rascally Russian Vladimir Putin–Pooty, as George W. had nicknamed him–is at it again.  He isn’t stopping in Crimea, it now is clear, as he sends masked thugs into police stations across eastern Ukraine.  Passivity by the U.S.–the only superpower left–invites aggression by a diminutive despot with a chip on his shoulder and something to