Today's Guest: Jerry Robinson, cartoon, early Batman artist credited with creating Robin the Boy Wonder, the Joker Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of cackling hyenas in whiteface and bright red Maybelline lipstick… right here in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! For many years, original Batman... Continue Reading →
Legendary talk show host Barry Farber: 50 years in radio! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I must not tell a lie; I did not grow up listening to Barry Farber on the radio. I listened to FM album radio stations in my New Jersey bedroom back in the 1970s, WNEW in New York City, the student-run station at Rutgers University and WPST in Princeton. Talk radio? Not so much then.... Continue Reading →
Olbermann – Caffeine = The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lawrence O'Donnell, host, "The Last Word," MSNBC Mr. Media is recorded live before a coven of telegenic, pro-masturbation teen witches… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Soft-spoken political analyst and frequent MSNBC fill-in host Lawrence O’Donnell launched his own show on the Micro-Peacock at 10 p.m.... Continue Reading →
Rush Limbaugh biographer Zev Chafets talks to Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live in the hometown of U.S. Senate candidate and Republican pariah Gov. Charlie Crist… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Like you, I have my own personal political beliefs. Mine are fairly middle of the road, not hard left, not hard right. I believe... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Alter delivers The Promise; does President Obama? PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One Here’s the opening of a conversation that would get me divorced: “Honey, I’m going to spend the next 17 months researching and reporting about President Obama’s first year in office. Oh, and I’m going to keep my full-time job at the magazine and keep... Continue Reading →
Stephen Colbert, Jake Tapper and Politifact say: Fact-check this, Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bill Adair, editor, Politifact.com If you’re going to get called on the carpet for something you did right, might as well be by Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central’s whirlwind of truthiness, “The Colbert Report.” That’s what happened about a week ago to Bill Adair, Pulitzer Prize winning editor of Politifact.com, the online fact-checking... Continue Reading →
Tiger Woods and the press: PR pro assesses golfer’s crisis response! PODCAST INTERVIEW
No matter what form the media takes—print, broadcast, online or even telepathy—there will always be corporations, organizations and individuals that need to get the word out about their product, service or mission. In that regard, public relations practitioners are like plumbers: they’ll always have work maintaining a flow and, in an emergency, unclogging a... Continue Reading →
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker frames health care! PODCAST INTERVIEW
No matter on what side of the political fence you sit, today is a day you’ll no doubt long remember: it’s the day a federal health care policy—some would say “system”—emerged after long debate. One day it will likely be remembered as a key accomplishment of President Barack Obama. By sheer luck of timing,... Continue Reading →
Jesse Ventura sees conspiracies in places I only see incompetence! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Jesse Ventura sees conspiracies everywhere. He came to national prominence as a wrestler nicknamed “The Body,” took a turn on the silver screen in Predator with Ah-nuld, and even went by “Governor” for a term. Now he’s bidding for you and me to start thinking of him as “The Brain.” Don’t get me wrong;... Continue Reading →
Radio’s Lionel is smarter than the usual talk show host! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I could put up a bit of a fuss, but what’s the point? My guest today, Air America morning radio host Lionel, is waaaaay smarter than me. I’m not going to offer any pretense that I can battle him to even a draw in a battle of wits: I can’t. Lionel—Michael LeBron for those... Continue Reading →