I recently was invited to start posting the Mr. Media podcasts at DigitalJournal.com, a wonderful site that encourages readers to become citizen reporters. That was nice in and of itself, but then the site's editor, David Silverberg, had this to say about Mr. Media on DJ's "Top Finds" page: "It's always impressive when a writer... Continue Reading →
I’m a lucky guy. Last December, I received an email from a woman named Amy Domestico, inviting me to bring my podcast, Mr. Media, to a relatively new media site called BlogTalkRadio. We exchanged some emails and finally talked on the phone. Up until that point, I recorded my interviews over the telephone on... Continue Reading →
Originally distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, November 2, 1996 If syndicated right-wing radio talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North are as powerful and influential as they seem to think, why isn't Bob Dole the president of the United States? That's what Tom Leykis wants to know. Leykis, 40,... Continue Reading →
Originally published January 20, 1997 While most of the big talk in media these days centers around the World Wide Web, real money is quietly being made in radio. "Suddenly," says Tom Taylor, 47, editor of the daily fax tipsheet, Inside Radio, "radio is starting to look like other businesses." What he means is that... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Larry Ratso Sloman, author or co-author of celebrity memoirs from Howard Stern, Abbie Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Phil Esposito, Mike Tyson, and a biography of Harry Houdini Writing the biography of a well-known person in pop culture is an assignment fraught with trap doors, two-way mirrors, and shackles. Some writers even disdain... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: John Amato, political website founder, CrooksAndLiars.com It’s not just this generation. Politics has always been dirty, nasty, bare-knuckle affairs. In the American two-party system, one side always blames the other for whatever ails the country. The new twist in the 21st Century is the emergence of political Web sites and political blogs... Continue Reading →
Following months of rumors, the two satellite radio companies, Sirius, and XM, last week confirmed one of the industry’s worst-kept secrets: their only hope of ever making a buck may well be combining their businesses. • Will Howard Stern and Martha Stewart soon be under the same K-Mart comforters as Opie and Anthony and... Continue Reading →
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