Today's Guest: Eric Deggans, journalist, author, Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Fox News Channel hosts who think they know everything about everything but – with the exception of Bill O’Reilly – don’t have the intellectual confidence to argue facts... Continue Reading →
Jesse Ventura for President and Veep Howard Stern? Oh my! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of wrestling executives’ wives running for U.S. Senate in the great state of Connecticut… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Jesse Ventura for President? Underestimate Jesse Ventura at your own risk. He may be an ex-wrestler and a... Continue Reading →
If Gore’s PI Graham Gage is on the case, watch out bad guys! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of TV P.I.s including Spenser, McMillan and Wife, Columbo and Fatman… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Finally, back in the business of reading the latest Graham Gage thriller by Steven Gore! I was excited to discover the... Continue Reading →
The Ashwood trilogy continues, harvested by novelist Cynthia Kraack! VIDEO
Today's Guest: Cynthia Kraack, speculative fiction author, Ashwood trilogy: Ashwood, Harvesting Ashwood and Leaving Ashwood. Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of guys who can see the future, including three-time Mr. Media guest The Amazing Kreskin, who really should know better by now… in the NEW new media capital of the world…... Continue Reading →
CBS’s Bob Schieffer finally gets his 60 minutes of Face! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Bob Schieffer was so happy about his Sunday morning news panel show, “Face The Nation,” being expanded from 30 to 60 minutes in the spring that he’d probably like to spike his keyboard and do an end zone dance in the show’s production studio. BOB SCHIEFFER podcast excerpt: "I have literally been trying for... Continue Reading →
Just another True Believer, Spying on Kurt Andersen! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of short-fingered vulgarians, Martha Stewart wannabes, Walter Monheit, the publisher of Vanity Fair, two guys who insist they were not Separated at Birth™, and people who can no longer squint hard enough to read the fine print… in the NEW new media capital of the... Continue Reading →
New documentary investigates what’s killing bees! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz, documentary filmmakers, Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who will deny, deny, deny until the Atlantic Ocean becomes one with the Great Lakes and the only crop left on earth is corn... Continue Reading →
Guest of Honor recalls White House dinner of Teddy and Booker! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Deborah Davis, author, Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of blacks and whites living together in harmony – seriously, they’re right here in my living room, humming the greatest hits of Run... Continue Reading →
Political comedy? Go back to musical Mark Russell! INTERVIEW
(Originally published on September 6, 1985.) More than a decade after Richard Nixon left office, one of the former president's associates is still providing material for political satirist Mark Russell. "Howard Hunt gave an interview in our 'other paper' here, the Washington Times. I always hire a little kid to go down to the... Continue Reading →
The unexpurgated Mike Edison: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Lenny Bruce, Bob Guccione Sr. and Al Goldstein fans – you see where this is going, yet?… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida! Hugh Hefner and Playboy. Bob Guccione and Penthouse. Al Goldstein and Screw. Larry Flynt... Continue Reading →