Okay, Egypt has been liberated, now what? Whatever it is had better come quickly. You suppose it'll happen by Wednesday at the latest? Somewhere in some newsroom that's the conversation that's going on. Likely it's a conversation in the 'big time' newsrooms; the networks, the cable news channels.

The U.S....

I have to tell you that I've done a 180 on Harvey Levin, the man in charge at TMZ. I first met and watched Harvey working in L.A. in the early 90's. A brash, pain in the rear, what's he doing in television?, grand-standing, lawyer-turned-reporter on local TV, Harvey...

It started with the national anthem and went down hill from there. Super Bowl XLV. The half time show was undercut by a sound person and director that apparently had not been to rehearsal, and by the usual hype beforehand that can only lead to a let down. Will...

I have to preface this by saying I've never been a fan of Keith Olbermann. But then I've never been a fan of any particular commentator. I've always considered 'fandom' something reserved for sports teams or maybe an individual player. There's something non-threatening about sports in general. You can...

In case you haven't noticed, the days of separation are over. Church and state. Me and you. The media and everyone else. There is no separation in any of those pairs anymore, most importantly the last.

The time of the 'fourth estate' is over. There are 20 or...

For the longest time I thought it was funny. Well, maybe not funny just kinda weird. The very first night I lived in Tucson Arizona I turned on the local news and was greeted by an interview with a local law enforcement Chief thanking a couple of residents for their...

The popular definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result. Tuesday's mid-term elections proved it once again. America, we're nuts.

It was billed as a political sea change and a referendum on the sitting government's policies. Just like 2008 except...

I love the Ojays. I love the Fall. I like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I like tapioca pudding. The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear? No so much.

Now that's not to say that The Rally didn't prove something. In fact it proved a number of things....

"What a crock!" It's a phrase my Dad used a lot. Turns out the ole man said more quotable things than I can remember. Had I only known, I would have written them down and turned them into a best selling book and a TV show. Another missed opportunity.

President Barack Obama of the United States of America, Nobel Laureate. It has a nice ring to it. Now get ready for the real noise. There will be a cacophony from both the right and the left. Many will say he doesn't deserve it. Just as many will laud the...

The next Olympic Games are still a few months off, the Winter fest in Canada in 2010, but the good ole USA has already won it's first gold medal. In the naivete competition we are the Usain Bolt of nations.

Following Rio's selection as the host of the 2016...

Genius is a funny word. It has been attached to a variety of people over the years, some deserving, most not. It's a lot like 'superstar' or 'legend' or any of a number of other superlatives that when thrown around willy nilly lose their impact. So it is with 'genius.'...

Welcome back students!

As you know, this is back to school time across the nation and fresh young faces and minds will be crammed into lecture halls all across the USA's college campuses this week, many of them in that ever popular Econ 101. Well, kiddos, I've got a...

And I didn't even get kissed.

I had a business deal fall apart this week and it started me thinking. Actually, "fall apart" may not be putting it quite right. It was more like bending over in the shower to pick up the soap at San Quentin and having...

It's rare that television moves me to take action but it did while I was watching the ABC and NBC "specials" on the death of Michael Jackson. They moved me to take a shower. Made your skin crawl at more than just a few levels didn't it?

First, strictly...

It's one of the oldest moves in television news: hire a babe. Melissa Rycroft, ex star of The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars on ABC is now a 'summer contributor' covering "fun" stories for Good Morning America. You suppose that's what David Westin means by the "new normal"?...

It's a 'Lewis Black moment'. I'm sitting on a conference call in my running shorts. Sweating. I'm in the Southwest and the rest of the participants are somewhere in the Midwest and Northeast. When the moderator plugs us all in the usual introductions begin. Halfway through I'm thinking maybe they've...

It was always my favorite act at the circus, the clown car. No matter how small it was, they just kept coming: one goofy looking clown after another. It seemed endless and funny. Just like the constant chatter these days about how to 'fix' the American news media. Except for...

I just got a 'butt phone call' from Omaha, Nebraska. A buddy of mine is there and he must have sat on his phone because I could hear him in the background talking to somebody else. 'Look at all those clowns, ' he was saying. 'What are they doing?' 'Oh,'...

It was with a silly grin that I read about TV Week's selection of the NBC news honchos as the 'most powerful' person or in this case group, in TV news. You want to see power? Shove some cheese up your nose. Then, particularly if you work for a well-known...