Goodbye Kim Jong Il, hello ’30 Rock’
As we await the mid-year return of Tina Fey‘s “30 Rock,” the 5-minute new-season teaser posted below poses an interesting question: How will the show deal with the death of…
Lara Logan
Those of us back in the US, covering whatever we cover, do so almost always under the cover of law. We may loose our jobs, or have an advertiser pull…
Bill O’Reilly to President Obama: “Does it disturb you that so many people hate you?”
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly was relatively civil [by O'Reilly standards] to President Obama during his live 15-minute pre-game one-on-one. But O’Reilly can’t help himself — he was repetitively argumentative, stepping…
We don’t need a weatherman to know how the wind blows, but everyone needs shelter from the storm
We’ve seen plenty of clips parodying “news”people who stand outside in stormy weather to capture the rain live at 5 (their mothers clearly did not teach their children well). Flip…
A tax on business by campaigning pols
Here’s something you might not have considered: With candidates buying up so much TV and radio time, what’s left gets sold at a premium to a station’s regular clients. Iowa…
‘Fran and Jan’ in Portland
We can’t predict how the “Fran & Jan Show” will play once it rolls, but their clever promotional videos portend a good start. In video-1, Fran (Francine Raften) and Jan (Janna Lopez) are…
Racist ads: What’s right, what’s wrong, what’s legally required
The radio commercials of US Senate candidate Glenn Miller, racist of Missouri, raise questions about the propriety of airing racially insulting and potentially incendiary material. KMBZ in Kansas City said…
Think different
Iowa marketing guru Michael Libbie’s post this morning intones, “Follow and get crushed” — don’t sell your stuff “the way everybody else in the world sells their stuff.” Earlier this…