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Radio: Now Asking All The Questions Unfit To Ask

Radio: Now Asking All The Questions Unfit To Ask

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...
The Medium Is The Message…And So Are The Cutbacks

The Medium Is The Message…And So Are The Cutbacks

So here’s a development that shouldn’t surprise: the New York Times – the nation’s newspaper of record – is disbanding its entire sports department, instead counting on its ample, if recently downsized, staff of the recently purchased The Athletic for sports coverage....
AM Radio Is Saved? Whoop De Doo!!!

AM Radio Is Saved? Whoop De Doo!!!

When I was in high school, I had an incredibly obnoxious government teacher who, whenever a student made an accurate, but largely meaningless, point, would sarcastically yell out, “Whoop de doo!” I wish I could remember his name because I keep hearing his voice in my...
Podcasting? Not Dead. Me-Tooism? On Life Support.

Podcasting? Not Dead. Me-Tooism? On Life Support.

20+ years ago, the great Jack Trout wrote a book called “Differentiate Or Die: Survival In Our Era Of Killer Competition.” Six years after his passing, the competition ain’t getting any less killer. In other news, podcasting is, apparently, passéing...