Media
War is Good For Prime Time Cable: CNN Shows Rise by a Million or More Viewers During Ukraine Crisis
End of the world? Nuclear war? Not such a good thing.
But for CNN, break out the Champagne!
When I wrote the story of Jeff Zucker's...
Business
Workers Unite: 100 Employees of Gizmodo, Jezebel, Other Unionized Sites Go On Strike
If you read the websites Jezebel, The Root, Lifehacker, Kotaku, Jalopnik or Gizmodo the workers there are asking you not to click on them....
Media
Pete Ganbarg’s Rock and Roll High School Podcast Returns with an All Star List of Guests
Pete Ganbarg's "Rock and Roll High School" is in session!
The podcast hosted by the head of A&R for Atlantic Records is available on Spotify,...
Media
Report: Jeff Zucker’s Secret-Not-So-Secret Girlfriend Allison Gollust OUT at CNN
First Jeff Zucker got the boot, now his girlfriend. Warner Media found that she violated their standards and practices.
The memo went out from Jason...
Business
Desperate Times in Media: Barry Diller Closes EW, InStyle Print Editions, Vogue Trots Out Kim Kardashian
If things weren't bad in the print world, now they have reached the point of despair.
Barry Diller, media mogul, bought a bunch of former...
coronavirus
(Watch Video) “Anti-Science” Now, But Joe Rogan Talked Up Vaccines Less Than 2 Years Ago
I have to thank Leslie Jones, ex SNL, for reposting this TikTok video. It comes from an account called mdg650hawk4.0. Here's the link to...
Business
Belated Obit: Dick Sequerra, Genius of Audio Hifi, Died Last October at Age 92, Made Marantz a Household Name
This is a belated obit, but one that's necessary. I had just read about the death of John Koss, the man who made stereo...
Celebrity
“Farewell” Actress Awkwafina Bids Her Own Farewell, to Twitter: “I’ll see you in a few years– per my therapist”
Just now, beloved and unique actress from "The Farewell," Awkwafina, posted two notices. One was an editorial but the next one seems to have...