Wednesday, November 11, 2015

"George" "F." "Will" is no David Brooks

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When I write a post criticizing David Brooks (which around here pretty much equates to writing a post about David Brooks), I generally try t...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The Witch of November

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Forty years ago today .

"Heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates" -- understanding Ben Carson

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One of the things I've realized watching the coverage of the Carson campaign is that almost none of the people reporting or commenting o...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Groo

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Mark Evanier, who co-writes Sergio Aragonés' successful and long-running comic series Groo , shares an interesting anecdote about t...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Return of the rabbit ears

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I've gotten way behind on the over-the-air television/terrestrial superstation story. For example, I missed this very good LA Times piec...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

The more things change -- advertising edition

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One of these days, I want to start a good, detailed thread on advertising and marketing. If and when I do, it will almost certainly mention ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Just because you're a critic doesn't mean you have to be critical

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[in case you're wondering, this one has been in the queue for a while] I know this is a fairly trivial matter, but in keeping with our...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Outlaws

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I'll just give you the short version of the first part of the story (my brakes are quite good; those of the guy behind me, not so much) ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Defending the indefensible for fun and profit – lesson 1: tone and framing

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David Brooks has come in for a lot of mockery for his latest column on Marco Rubio from commentators like Jonathan Chait (“ What Should We ...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

I ain't scared of no posts

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I've got a full week's worth of Halloween fun at the comics and pop culture blog, Mippyville . Twilight Zones , Lugosi's Zombies...
Friday, October 30, 2015

"[POPULAR APP] for [BLANK]" -- it's like Mad Libs but you end up getting twenty million in venture capital

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At the risk of making blanket pronouncements, here are some blanket pronouncements. When you hear a proposed business model described as b...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Corporate statisticians survival guide – – rule of nominal overcompensation

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There is an inverse relationship between an organization's tendency to come up with special names for something and the likelihood of yo...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

More Netflix

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This is my second big Netflix story of the week which makes me a little nervous. I am afraid that these posts often come off as att...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

This would tend to support the hack hypothesis

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This would certainly qualify as making up things Niall Ferguson's right-wing audience would like to hear , though I'm not quite rea...
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Nonetheless, I still prefer to think of music executives as rapacious creeps

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I've been meaning to write something about AntennaTV's successful campaign to air episodes of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in r...