A Liar, A Thief, A Braggart, A Cheat

“Most people know Harry Anderson as Judge Harold T. Stone, the affable star of NBC’s Night Court, which ran for nine seasons from 1984 to 1992,” David Hill writes at The Ringer.
“To Anderson, however, playing Judge Stone was just a job. He never set out to be an actor, and his arrival at the center of a hit sitcom was something of an accident. Harry Anderson was no actor. He was a magician. He was a comedian. He was a storyteller and a showman. At his heart, however, Harry Anderson was a hustler.”
True. Night Court was the least of it.

Posted on April 19, 2018

Thanks, Tribune Media, All You Did Was Weaken A Country

By Tim Karr/Free Press with The Beachwood Added Value Affairs Desk

In a tweet Monday morning, President Donald Trump praised conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is seeking his administration’s approval of a proposed $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media.
Free Press, which has asked the FCC to deny the transfer of Tribune broadcast licenses to Sinclair, has called on Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to recuse himself from the merger proceeding. The agency’s inspector general’s office is investigating rulings during Pai’s tenure that have helped pave the way for the proposed deal by removing limits on how many stations a company can control in a single city.
If approved, the merger would give Sinclair control of more than 233 local TV stations reaching 72 percent of the country’s population, far in excess of congressional limits on national broadcast audience reach.
The president’s tweet follows a viral video made by Deadspin showing local Sinclair newscasters in several markets forced to read from a script repeating many of Trump’s talking points about “fake news” coverage, a favorite theme of his administration.

Posted on April 3, 2018

Piece’s TV

A Hostile Environment

Harry The Hat

Thanks, Tribune Media, All You Did Was Weaken A Country

The Gender Pay Gap (That Isn’t?)