Over the next little while, we will see plenty of stories about Amy Winehouse and how tragic her death is. Truly, any time someone is lost so early in life, it is a tragedy. But just like the train coming into the station, this whole event was predictable, on schedule, and pretty much expected by [...]
It’s been sort of funny watching from afar the media coverage of the Caylee Anthony case, the poor child who died too young with a mother who just didn’t seem to know what happened. Casey Anthony was tried and found innocent, a shocking verdict to most people, and probably most shocking to CNN / HLN [...]
I cannot imagine how time flies on the the internet, how fads and fashions come and go. I have been online and working online since the early 90s (I had a pre-commercial internet account though a local provider here… on dialup!). I have seen plenty of things come and go, but it’s the last few [...]
As a long time racing fan, you sort of get use to the ebb and flow of racing series. They have good years, and they have bad years. The people running various racing series either make really great decisions, and advance their sport, or they make incredibly stupid decisions that leave their sport in tatters. [...]
This week Wikileaks is once again filling the internet with previously secret, classified, or private documents, mostly having to do with US foreign policy and relations with other countries. This is sort of “classic Wikileaks”, as it gets to the heart of what they are trying to do: Expose everything all the time. While many [...]
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have not been a huge fan of the direction NASCAR has taken in the last few years. A number of moves by NASCAR management (such as creating the chase to the championship), changes to the cars, and an incredibly poor selection of tracks has really dragged the [...]
Larry King has been sinking into irrelevancy for many years now, and he finally agreed to retire from CNN earlier this year. But like a bad smell that just won’t go away, Larry King is lingering on the airwaves until the end of the year, when Piers Morgan will take over, and take the 9PM [...]
When I heard that TLC was picking up Sarah Palin’s new reality show, I couldn’t help but think the timing was perfect. Apparently I wasn’t the only one, considering commentaries like this one on CNN that shows more than a few people picked up the vibe. When it comes to playing in the grey areas [...]
I was really surprised to see this article at That’s Racin that quotes ESPN officials as wondering where the ratings have gone for NASCAR. Based on the overnights from the last race in California and all of the other races in the chase, NASCAR has lost 20% or more of it’s audience, and it’s a [...]
Well, it seems that the programming people over at Spike TV woke up and realized that doubling the amount of ads is just not a very good idea. After experimenting with a new format that turned an hour long show into something like an hour and 15 to an hour and 25 minutes (without adding [...]
I have been around the internet since before there was a “world wide web”, tube videos, or apps. My first account dates back to the early 90s, before the internet was easy to get onto. For the most part, you had to go through a school or one of the few telnet providers to get [...]
Almost every generation of music has had the professional fame whore. Pretty much since media became a visual medium (the TV era), there has always been at least one attention whore running around, doing whatever is required, dressing in whatever they can, just to get attention. The rock and roll world has had more than [...]
I was looking through my sat-tv programming guide the other day, and I have been noticing more and more channels using weird timings on their shows, with networks often seeming to want to start and end their programs 1 minute offset from the top of the hour for some reason, perhaps to make it harder [...]
Let me start out by saying I am not a Democrat (or a Republican for that matter). I don’t have a horse in the race, and I don’t care the outcome so much. I should also point out that while I am not a big supporter of Obama, I would say that he has done [...]
One of the amazing things about the internet is how fast news spreads. The other things that is amazing about the internet is just how slanted major media sources can be. Once again, Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report site lead the way with ignorance and hateful attacks. This is a site now solely dedicated [...]
