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Yearly Archives: 2007, 2008

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Deggans PunditWatch: NPR asks, has TV gotten too white?

Jul 4, 2008

Entertainment Weekly is the latest big media outlet to broach the question in my headline, based on the lack of diversity in this coming fall's collection of new network TV shows. But the fact is, the networks have …

Tagged: radio, pop culture, network tv, diversity minority affairs

This is summer TV's best? NBC unearths a woman who can break boards with her breasts

Jul 3, 2008

I've often said NBC should have put a question mark at the end of the title of America's Got Talent. And no act proved that saying better Tuesday than Busty Heart, a stripper and strip club owner who has been making …

Tagged: video streams

Chris Rock schools Tampa Bay with No Apologies

Jul 3, 2008

Here are some of the things which occurred to me last night, while sitting through Chris Rock's amazing, near-two-hour 'No Apologies' standup tour at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. (If you like what you see here …

Tagged: pop culture, media business, diversity minority affairs

Departure of longtime Tribune writer Kurt Loft resonates for me today

Jul 2, 2008

As my thoughts turn to the 11 Tampa Tribune reporters who will be told they are leaving the news organization today, I recalled a recent conversation with that newspaper's longtime classical music critic and science …

Tagged: newspapers

Memo: Tampa Tribune and WFLA-Ch. 8 photographers to reapply for jobs in a merged department

Jul 2, 2008

Here's a copy of a memo Tampa Tribune photographers received by email today from management: "Based on the information that we received yesterday, here is some information you need to be most aware of. 1) ALL …

Tagged: newspapers