For a kid weaned on Star Trek and Lost in Space, it was like snagging a seat on the Starship Enterprise. Fumbling with the knob to my brand-new game of Pong, I was the envy of my mid-'70s neighborhood, mesmerized by the promise of firing up a game just... Read More
This is the delicate dance which goes on when big corporations want public approval for controversial actions. The NAACP, National Urban League and Al Sharpton's National Action Network have announced an agreement with Comcast and NBC Universal to boos... Read More
Just learned I'm scheduled to talk about Larry King's final show tonight on PBS' NewsHour, which airs at 7 p.m. here in the Tampa Bay area on WEDU-Ch. 3. Though plans always change, I'm slated to go on about halfway through the show to examine his lega... Read More
Next week, I'll be working light and posting lots of my best of lists, but this one was too good to wait. Here's proof why Jimmy Fallon will be receiving my Most Underrated award for 2010: a slow jamming the news segment featuring NBC Nightly News... Read More
It may be hard to remember now, amid all the jokes about his age, multitude of wives and softball questions, but there was a time when Larry King was the biggest star on cable television, period. That was back when CNN had no competition, as the ... Read More
In an odd switcheroo, alternative newspaper chain Creative Loafing has shuttered its Sarasota newspaper, licensing its name and some content to the Herald-Tribune newspaper. An executive at Creative Loafing wouldn't say how much the newspaper is paying... Read More
Considering how Facebook is rewriting the rules for media and social interaction, it's hard to dispute TIME magazine choosing the social network's 20-something wunderkind founder Mark Zuckerberg as its person of the year (and could they have chosen a w... Read More
Ire has been mounting online over the new logo recently unveiled by Comedy Central, a mashup of two Cs stuck together that look like a miswritten copyright sign or something. It's the kind of coolly corporate, yet slightly stupid display that plenty of... Read More
Like a lot of kids, when Haris Lender was young, she helped her father Murray with the family business. But it just so happened the family business was a little better known that most: Lender's Bagels, the company which pioneered the frozen food b... Read More
Sitting at home last night with my cable on the fritz -- thank you Bright House Networks! -- I decided to use my freed up TV-watching time as only a geeky television critic would: catching up on old Glee episodes through Apple TV. Which made me think o... Read More
