It has been a fascinating journey for me, migrating from my lifelong career as an ornery, contrarian journalist to my current role as ghostwriter, content creator, and crisis advisor. Having endured and learned along the way, I now realize: you gotta celebrate the wins when you can. This week one triumph of my transformation showed […]
The Trump Century
Hello all, been too long a lapse since I have posted to my own website. Part of the delay owes to lockdown anxiety: preoccupied with finding work that actually pays. ;-> And now this: The venerable television anchor Lou Dobbs, in his new book published this week, “The Trump Century,” makes the passionate yet fact-packed […]
The Haters on ZeroHedge
“I’ve always been . . . a provocateur.” That was my opening line in a mini-profile TV spot that CNBC taped with me as part of its “I am CNBC” campaign a few years ago. Truth in advertising. But I never expected to provoke the firestorm of bitter, mean-spirited, angry reaction that greeted a simple […]
GS & @BS
You see the headlines this morning? Publishing titan Simon & Schuster kills six-figure book deal with @GSElevator, the Twitter feed that bashes Goldman Sachs and all of Wall Street. The Twitter account professed to report the real overheard exchanges of rapacious GS plunderers. It was said to be the puckish work of an anonymous writer […]
Wages and Lies
In these Days of Obama — hand-wringing, feckless and ineffectual — even the wonkiest economic issue is infected with moralizing, business-bashing and political correctness. If you question the fear-mongering of climate-change alarmists, you are a “denier.” If you oppose extended payments for jobless benefits, you are heartless (despite clear evidence that it makes unemployment worse […]
CMCSA-NETFLIX: WHAT NO FCC?
The Net-neutrality nannies are shocked and outraged by the Comcast-Netflix deal—and by new reports that AT&T is in similar talks with the streamer that gave us the binge-worthy “House of Cards.” They are appalled that Netflix, their poor oppressed corporate hero, would stoop to signing a deal to pay a traffic-bounty to its tormentor, Comcast, […]
Netflix: The Real House of Cards
First of two articles Happy Valentine’s Day, honey. Instead of going out to an overpriced dinner in a restaurant crowded with a few dozen other tired, tense couples, how about we stay in and binge? On “House of Cards,” season 2. Netflix today posted all 13 episodes of the much-anticipated second season of the Kevin […]
Mouse Roars Consumers Uneasy
Dennis Kneale on the Disney company’s 33% lift in quarterly profits. Display:
What does Facebook do right that Twitter does wrong?
Undertone CEO Eric Franchi compares Facebook’s service to Twitter’s. view