1246 Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young shocks Tampa Bay business community! INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Andrew Young, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, former Mayor of Atlanta, civil rights activist (Originally published in The Maddux Report, May, 1990; this was the first of three interviews I did with Andrew Young. The most recent was in 2013 for the book Building Atlanta, which I wrote with pioneering black... Continue Reading →

1210 Nostra Aetate changed lives of Catholics and Jews! VIDEO INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Jim Barrens, author, In Our Time (Nostra Aetate): How Catholics and Jews Built a New Relationship   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with JIM BARRENS by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of true believers of multiple religions who all agree with John... Continue Reading →

Lawton Chiles was nobody’s fool! 1994 INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: A November 3, 1994 interview with two-time Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. (A few days after this was published in Creative Loafing/Tampa, Chiles defeated Jeb Bush to win his second term in office. Read Bob Andelman's companion interview with Bush here.)   Welcoming Lawton Chiles, the incumbent Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, to... Continue Reading →

Free press is cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s rallying cry! VIDEO INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist     Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with syndicated editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of real life Amuricans who think that deep down, you’re thinkin’ what they’re thinkin’… in the NEW new... Continue Reading →

Nothing Socially Relevant about Mr. Media. Except this interview! VIDEO INTERVIEW

    Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Nora Armani, founding artistic director, SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York, March 16-22, 2015, by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of socially irrelevant filmmakers trying to put on a brave face in hopes of being... Continue Reading →

Jeb Bush and me: A backseat interview from 1994! INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Jeb Bush, candidate, Florida Governor (This Jeb Bush interview originally appeared in the November 3, 1994 issue of Creative Loafing/Tampa Bay, where it was paired with a separate conversation I had with then-Democratic incumbent Governor Lawton Chiles. Chiles landed the cover--and easily won re-election. Bush made another run at the job four years later and,... Continue Reading →

Fox Mole Joe Muto exits Bill O’Reilly Factor, writes, tells all! VIDEO INTERVIEW

  Watch the exclusive Mr. Media interview with Joe Muto by watching the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of dittoheads, dunderheads and confederacies of dunces… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! The funniest thing about Joe Muto’s new book is that it... Continue Reading →

Can former Obama speechwriter’s ‘1600 Penn’ survive NBC? PODCAST INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Jon Lovett, co-creator, "1600 Penn," podcaster, "Pod Save America"   Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of former presidential speechwriters who went on to successful careers in television – I’m looking at you, Pat Buchanan, Ben Stein and Peggy Noonan. Waitamminit – they’re all Republicans! Damn! I hoped Jon Lovett... Continue Reading →

Obama to 1600 Penn creators: “I better not see this on TV!” PODCAST INTERVIEW

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of everyone who has played the President of the United States in recent years, including Bill Pullman, Morgan Freeman, Dennis Haysbert and George W. Bush… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!   Sometimes, as a father, the best weapon in... Continue Reading →

Donald Trump & Butterfly Ballots=David Willson’s Palm Beach! VIDEO INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: David Willson, cartoonist, Palm Beach Daily News     Palm Beach Daily News cartoonist David Willson's work is collected for the first time in Billionaires and Butterfly Ballots. Watch the exclusive Mr. Media interview with Willson by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of proud... Continue Reading →

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