The Insanity Is Still Alive
I am deeply disturbed by an emailed blog I received this evening. It comes from something called “The Synagogue of Satan“, and it is a long, deep and deeply disturbed blog about how Jews both control the media and...
Read moreCheerleaders
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwGqtt_Z78&rel=1]] OK. You want to see an example of my VJ work. Here’s one. I don’t make a living as a VJ. My job is to sell the concept, implement it, teach it. But from time to time I...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – 2008
We’re starting the 2008 season off with our first Travel Channel Academy here in New York. Forty new freshly minted Travel Journalists (TJs) will soon be credentialed and ready to hit the streets of Shanghai, Mexico City, Nairobi and...
Read moreBack to School
Following the winter break, Lisa and I start our new class at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Our curriculum is a bit ‘unorthodox’, but we think we’re giving them a good head start for...
Read moreKRON goes on the Block
Young Broadcasting announced today that is putting KRON, its San Francisco station up for sale. KRON was one of three stations we took into the full-blown VJ model in 2004/5. The people at KRON undertook an enormous amount of...
Read moreWhat Local News Can Learn from Obama
He rates well in a good demo… Presidential primaries are a lot like television shows. You roll out your pilots, and the ones that rate get commissioned. The ones that don’t rate die. The Chris Dodd Show, for example,...
Read moreIt’s The Community, Stupid!
 The old broadcasting model does not really cut it anymore In two weeks we’re starting our 2008 round of Travel Channel Academy sessions. We’re going to train and empower more than 1,ooo people with cameras and laptops and...
Read moreHOW MORGAN FREEMAN MADE BARAK OBAMA POSSIBLE
A few years ago, I read a fascinating book by Neil Gabler entitled “An Empire of Their Own, How The Jews Invented Hollywood” The Hollywood Studios were founded by 7 Jews, all of whom ironically came from a 50...
Read moreTHE CUL-DE-SAC OF CULTURE
Although we like to credit Gutenberg with the printing press, the concept of movable type actually originated here, in China. During the Ch’ing-li period (1041-1048), an alchemist named Pi Sheng conceived of the notion of movable carved blocks for...
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