Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jen Senko by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of dittoheads, knuckleheads and general dickheads who thought they were getting tickets to be in the studio audience of The O’Reilly Factor… in the NEW new media... Continue Reading →
Race Baiter! Media critic Eric Deggans made you look, Bill O’Reilly! VIDEO INTERVIEW
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 →
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 →
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 →
African-American editorial cartoonists go ’round the table! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Tim Jackson, David G. Brown, Ron Rogers, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Dr. Yaounde Olu, editorial cartoonists These are days when the rules are being rewritten by the hour, a time when the old ways seem quaint and antiquated, a period in history when perhaps we can no longer rely upon history to guide the future.... Continue Reading →
Alec Foege on The Rise of Clear Channel (and death of dissent)! PODCAST INTERVIEW
It is so easy to hate terrestrial radio these days. No matter how many stations you scan, AM or FM, it’s difficult to find one on which you can land without moments later wanting to take a sledgehammer to the radio. The politics are angry and irrational -- left and right. The music hasn’t... Continue Reading →
52 Radio’s Tom Leykis tackles Rush Limbaugh! INTERVIEW
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 →
30 Inside Radio with magazine editor Tom Taylor! INTERVIEW
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 →
27 Comic book writer Chuck Dixon on Simpsons, Batman, Bane, more! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Chuck Dixon, comic book writer, "The Simpsons, "Batman" Part 1 of 2 One of the most anticipated movies of this summer -- no, not Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix -- and no, Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer -- is The Simpsons Movie. And while Matt Groening couldn’t make... Continue Reading →