Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Barbara Slate by clicking on the video player above! If your faith in the United States Government has been shaken by political developments over the last three years, you’re apparently right where the political leaders and oligarchs of Russia want you to be. Oh, and President... Continue Reading →
Renee Rosen gives Helen Gurley Brown’s Cosmo a novel spin! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Renee Rosen by clicking on the video player above! One of the best novels I read in 2018 was Renee Rosen’s Windy City Blues, in which she told the story of Chicago’s legendary Chess Records through the eyes of a fictionalized young woman who worked at... Continue Reading →
Odd films, underground comix and Mike Watt’s Exploitation Nation! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Mike Watt by clicking on the video player above! Exploitation Nation, Mike Watt’s bi-annual journal in which he gives lowbrow entertainment a highbrow survey, is all about underground comix in its sixth issue. I’m always looking for an excuse to feature comics-related subjects on Mr. Media,... Continue Reading →
Christine Hallquist’s Art of Transgender Politics! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Christine Hallquist by clicking on the video player above! Derek Hallquist grew up the son of a man who believed fervently in the importance of modernizing and protecting America’s energy grid. As a child and teen, Derek followed his dad to energy-producing plants, learning about turbines,... Continue Reading →
The Banker’s Wife is novelist Cristina Alger’s Panama Papers! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Cristina Alger by clicking on the video player above! (UPDATE, JULY 27, 2019: Amazon Prime Video announced it acquired rights to produce a TV series based on Cristina Alger's novel, The Banker's Wife. Producers of the show previously were behind Showtime's long-running series, "Homeland." Read more... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Fournier: how to be green in the afterlife! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Elizabeth Fournier by clicking on the video player above! Everybody needs a niche and Elizabeth Fournier has one. She’s America’s friendly, neighborhood mortician. She also has a color. Green. As in, Elizabeth Fournier is America’s green mortician, writing books and spreading the word that funerals and... Continue Reading →
Jeff Klinkenberg, Son of Real Florida, Returns! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jeff Klinkenberg by clicking on the video player above! Every major daily newspaper has a few journalists whose work consistently rises above all others. And there is an even smaller group of these top-notch reporters whose legends are beyond reproach and who are held in the... Continue Reading →
Cartoonist Chip Bok has his own ideas! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Editorial cartoonist Chip Bok interview with Poynter Online from Poynter Institute on Vimeo In 2012, Jim Romenesko left his long-running media news column for Poynter Online. When Poynter went in search of a replacement, one of the week-long tryouts went to a guy who already had "media" in his name -- me, Mr. Media. It... Continue Reading →
Business Wars fought by podcaster David Brown! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: David Brown, podcast host, "Business Wars" Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with David Brown by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of podcast fans who like nothing more than a brutal war of perceived slights and misunderstandings—Marc Maron vs. the... Continue Reading →
Staying up late with Larry King! 1986 INTERVIEW
(NOTE - One of my first celebrity interviews when I joined the old Tampa Tribune in May 1983 was great fun: I spent a couple of hours chauffeuring legendary talk show host Larry King around to media appearances and then waited with him at Tampa International Airport for his plane to depart. He was... Continue Reading →