Nearly every major online publication (and print for that matter) are sending at least one reporter to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) – and no one, except those reporters, actually cares what comes out of the show. It’s all the same –…
The first draft of my book is finished (more on that in the coming weeks) and I am back on the job here at OnMedea. It was an excellent summer with lots of quiet and lots of work. Other than the entire media spectrum going…
I had to interrupt my summer hiatus (I’m working on a book so I haven’t been posting in this space for a few weeks) to say the Emmys Are A Joke. I’m not talking about the nominations – for the most part, it’s the same…
Hawk Koch was named President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences today. Like his aggressive name suggests, this is a bold choice from an extremely bold organization. To have the balls to choose the old media film producer son of an old…
I actually watched last night’s “American Idol” Season 11 premiere. Yes, I’m the one. Just kidding. There were actually quite a few people who watched last night. But 23% fewer than watched last year. This show is dead. It may limp along and have…
OK, just admit it guys, you love movie stars and only nominate hot people you would like to ‘go to disco’ with. I mean, I sort of know where you’re coming from – “The Ides Of March” sucked but, of course, I would rather sit…
First of all, I am not a television critic. I am a critic of the television industry – but not really on the content itself. That said, last week, while at a Manka Bros. corporate retreat, I actually sat and watched a full episode of…
Am I the only one in America who thinks she is undeserving of all these accolades? TOP 3 on American Idol? Seriously? Whenever she sings it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. About a 1/4 tone under the note with no life to her…
OK, just admit it, guys, you love movie stars and only nominate the people you would like to ‘go to disco’ with. I mean, I sort of know where you’re coming from – “The Tourist” sucked but, of course, I would rather sit at “The…
YOU’VE GOT TO BE F-ING KIDDING ME!! I apologize but this cannot stand! I am shocked and saddened by today’s news of the 2009 Nobel Prize winners for Chemistry. Seriously? Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath? Somebody please tell me if this…