by Denis Campbell
It was a dream match-up prime-time television listing for this past Tuesday night. Whilst it competed with an NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) rerun and gripping baseball, NBA and NHL playoff games, even the WWE’s (World Wrestling Entertainment) CEO Vince McMahon was filled with respect. “I tried for weeks to make this bout [...]

DETROIT March Madness. Win or go home. It’s that simple. 65 teams started two weeks ago. 4 remain and the financially battered city of Detroit will host one of its own (Michigan State) plus Connecticut, Villanova and perennial (and President Obama bracket) favourite North Carolina to play next weekend and determine the national champion of [...]

 
Media Tweets are Serious Business
What sounds like an expensive turbo-charged sports car is actually the social media platform Twitter and all the cool celebrity kids are using it to build an audience. In this recession, with the shuttering of The Rocky Mountain News, huge newspapers on financial life support and advertisers pulling back on network [...]

 
by Charley James
Living in the Eastern Time zone, it was well after midnight before I got to bed after watching the debate and flipping the dial to see what the Commentariat would pronounce as post-debate truth, wisdom, justice and The American Way. 
As usual, all of the pundits got it all wrong: Most called it a [...]

Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]

The bar has been raised to an impossible height. While innovative the human price had to be high with 25,000 people working night and day for more than a year The 29th Summer Olympiad ended with the same ritualistic, disciplined, spectacle and fanfare as they began. It was stultifyingly precise at every turn. Not one [...]

The Dutch know how to throw a party. In 2000 in Sydney, the hottest Olympic ticket was not to the Opening or Closing Ceremonies. It was to Holland House beside Sydney Harbour where the parties were so festive and long that athletes from other countries clamoured to join in and one eventually had to produce [...]

It would be nice: if rules were followed… if fair play was a guiding principle rather than something to smirk at… if those seeking high office did so with seriousness and gravitas instead of throw away lines and inside jokes they think they can get away with… if a situation arose where the appearance of [...]

The most spectacular opening ceremony of a modern Olympiad is in the bag. 15,000 in the cast. Synchronised fireworks, drumming and dancing wowed an audience of 4 billion globally on the telly. A remarkable festival of colours and digital effects combined with movements that took a year to rehearse under what had to have been [...]

Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]