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Since he first descended his golden escalator in Trump Tower on June 16th, 2015 (a day that will live in infamy), people have been underestimating Donald Trump, much to their misfortune. One by one he plowed through 16 other...

image courtesy Wikicommons   On the heels of the success of House of Cards on HBO, the cable news channels (and the networks) have  launched their own drama series – MOTHERLAND. Like House of Cards and Homeland, it is...

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”. So wrote (theoretically) Sinclair Lewis. It would seem he was wrong. When fascism came to America, it came wrapped in a Reality TV...

Fake news is a problem. Everyone thinks so, even President Obama who decried it in Berlin yesterday (that is, if TVNewser is to be believed.  Who knows?) To my mind, Fake News is not really a problem. It is...

I don’t have to recite the litany of his flaws and failings and sheer ignorance. That has all been well documented over the past year or two. And yet, it would seem, a majority or at least close to...

In a recent article in WITNESS , professional photographer Adrian Hadland discusses the state of the professional photography business. It is a profession under enormous pressure.  The advent of digital photography, and smart phone cameras in particular have made ‘everyone’...

If the 2016 election seems to be more like a reality TV show than an election, it is for a simple reason: it is. I should know. I spent years producing reality TV, and this one is a ratings...

The possible (US Govt. Approval Pending) acqusition of Time’/Warner by ATT is indicative of what I would call the Third Generation of Television – the first being broadcast and the second cable. The Third Generation is going to be...

Not so long ago, and for that matter, for most of human history, we believed that we were alone. Alone in the universe, such as it was. Until Copernicus in 1519 put the sun at the center of the...

Now it all makes sense. Now we can see what this whole two-year election process was all about. It was never about the Presidency or the White House. It was about TrumpTV. CNBC reported today that Trump son-in-law, Jared...