Feb 6, 2024
Doctors don’t save patients in cardiac arrest by treating an unrelated skin rash. Radio, currently somewhere between serious and critical condition, is busy trying to treat its problems with calamine lotion. (So why did the headline borrow from print to write about...
Oct 19, 2022
The signature bit of my radio career – the one that built a 20-year morning show and was nationally syndicated – started with this phrase, a mocking of “adult” stories: I never thought this would happen to me. And considering that I’ve spent the vast majority of...
Jul 8, 2017
One of the more remarkable things I’ve read lately is a piece that showed up in the New York Times last week in which Dean Baquet, the Times’ Executive Editor, answers questions from readers about changes to the way The Gray Lady is restructuring her...
Mar 7, 2017
A friend of mine sent me this incredibly entertaining Rolling Stone piece called “The Slow Death of the Great Wrestling Promo”. You should read it. Of course, you didn’t take your mother’s advice to eat your vegetables when you were growing up,...
May 24, 2016
Because I have such a unique background – a couple decades leading radio stations and eight years as an attorney – I get asked about podcasting a lot, and I’ve come to some realizations. If you’re a lawyer – or if you’re a vendor...
