Reporters from around the World are converging on Graceland and it’s not even August.

Seasoned news people and Evis fans know there are two times during the year that the home of the King will be in the news. His birthday in January and the day of his death in August. The rest of the time the crowds are pretty steady and the horde of national media [...]

Where are our manners?

Somewhere along the way, we seem to have become a less polite society and I’m not sure where the trend started or what caused it. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve had bad drivers for years, weaving in and out of traffic, cutting people off. But the incidents of road rage [...]

Was the New York Times considering selling its Broadcast Division?

At the end of the day, I like to check on the stock activity to see how much more my NYT stock has tanked. These days it’s like hitting my thumb with a hammer. However I was surprised today in that the stock prices finished UP $1.11. Great news. Perhaps it’s [...]

You gotta love the Memphis political scene.

My mother-in-law has been involved in the political and real estate scene in Memphis for decades. She tells me that her associates from Middle and East Tennessee have chided her for years about whacky politics in Memphis. She says she responds that politics in Middle and East Tennessee are boring and that you [...]

Neither Dan Rather nor CBS gets it.

There’s nothing like a divorce to bring out the worst in someone. You can go into it thinking it will work out one way and before you know it, things get ugly and people don’t do what one would expect them to do.That’s the case with CBS divorcing Dan Rather. Yah, [...]

Would you live in Memphis if you had things to do over again?

I was reading on a thread on Shoptalk about what some folks consider to be a good place to live in the U-S besides the two coasts and it made me wonder: Would folks in the TV news business here in the MidSouth move to the Memphis area if they had things to do [...]

Producers are burning out! Alert the media!

Wow, the tidbits you can find on the internet.I ran across a research article about producrs a few days ago in Shoptalk. The research is Angele Anderfuren from the Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University. The research says one in five news producers surveyed in Texas at network affiliates is at risk of [...]

Watch out for people practicing Satanic rituals.

I read this morning that some folks are all upset that tomorrow will be a day to watch out for. On the calendar you could argue that tomorrow’s date, June 6, 2006 could be translated to be 6/6/6. I personally think that’s something of a stretch since the date is 06/06/06 but it WILL be [...]

An Equal Opportunity Offender

I’ve said it before and I will say it again that there is not much of what I consider “Must See TV”. Still, there are some shows I TIVO on a regular basis and I have found myself hooked on one in particular. It’s Mind of Mencia with Carlos Mencia on the Comedy [...]