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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Reality . . .

. . . NOT reality tv, but reality economics . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fact-checking-trump-no-tariff-man-china-doesn-t-foot-n943686)
"The people who are purchasing foreign goods are paying tariffs," said Columbia Business School professor Amit Khandelwal, who teaches on international trade. . . If you went to an electronics store right now and bought a foreign-made, big screen television hit by tariffs, the sale price will likely include a sizeable price hike thanks to the U.S. tariff — potentially to the tune of hundreds of dollars.

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Thursday, May 31, 2018

TV . . .

. . . critic. . .

(From https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAy2fW6?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare)

". . . Trump and his press secretary Sarah Sanders insisted they were also owed an apology from ABC for airing derogatory comments about the administration. . . after Trump wrote on Twitter that Bob Iger, the president of ABC's parent company, Disney, had failed to express regret for the negative things people have said on air about him. " . . . reading from a list of examples meant to bolster Trump's point, including ESPN host Jemele Hill calling Trump a white supremacist on Twitter, "The View" host Joy Behar likening Christianity to mental illness [THERE's one that relevant to Trump????] and ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann attacking Trump as a Nazi. . . her answer on Barr stretched longer than her responses on North Korea or Puerto Rico. "The President is simply calling out media bias," . . . and he's focused on doing what is best for our country."

. . . being our TV Critic-in-chief . . .

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Thursday, October 5, 2017

Here . . .

. . . comes the bride . . .

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/09/25/nbcs-megyn-kelly-experiment-unveils-its-latest-creation-a-morning-show-bride-of-frankenstein/?tid=hybrid_mostsharedarticles_1_na&utm_term=.295b1a82034b)
". . . “Megyn Kelly Today” is meant to be the final, dazzling piece of Kelly’s multimillion-dollar transmogrification from steely Fox News host to a mushy, hugs-for-everybody, midmorning TV host. . . the experiment is far from successful. . .She interviewed people nervously and so awkwardly that they were cowed into giving monosyllabic answers. She also never missed an opportunity to talk about herself. . . Most of the episode devolved into an intentionally meta hall of mirrors, inviting the audience to admire Kelly as much as Kelly admires Kelly — a morning TV show about the birth of a morning TV show. . . her show will encourage viewers to escape from the awful world, “to laugh with us” (not one genuinely funny thing happened in this first episode), to which Kelly added her wish that viewers will enjoy “a smile, sometimes a tear, and maybe some hope to start your day.” . . . The hour crawled by. A middle segment featured the “Today” regulars welcoming Kelly to 30 Rockefeller Center, a predawn festivity of studied smarm, with the added delight of seeing Kathie Lee Gifford sit in her makeup chair and play nice-nice with Kelly the way an old house cat would welcome a naive and extra-squeaky mouse to the kitchen. Then everyone came to Kelly’s stage to drink mimosas and bask in the NBC-ness of it all. . . the wonderful, hopeful, shallow world of being Megyn Kelly.

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Monday, March 20, 2017

Tireless. . .

. . . Ty . . .

(from http://www.ultimateoldiesradio.com/djpage.cfm?djID=42&name=Ty+Ford)
". . . Ty Ford is a well-known name in Baltimore radio from the 70's and 80's. Ty Ford is a well-known voice in hundreds of commercials heard today around the world. The Baltimore resident trained for radio at the Grantham School in Washington DC in 1967, and after earning his FCC license (remember when we all had to do that?), Ford began that all too familiar journey into the 'biz'. Ty Ford jocked a lot of rock and roll in his day, but he eventually found his niche in audio production and voiceovers. . . The Ty Ford radio career began at 900 AM WLMD in Laurel, Maryland (a town between Baltimore and Washington). He worked there from the Fall of '69 to the Spring of the following year. 'LMD was a daytimer, and a great place for aspiring radio stars like Ty Ford. In addition to playing 'middle of the road' tunes and handling afternoon news, Ford also hosted Irish and Polka shows on the weekend. . . in March of 1970, Ty embarked on a year's sojourn at WNAV AM and FM in Annapolis. The format was Top 40, and Ford handled full-time airshifts, first midday and then evenings, as well as production for both stations. In 1972, Ty cracked his first Major Market gig, scoring a slot at Progressive Rock formatted 86 WAYE. That operation was destined to be a legendary station, featuring the likes of Ford, Chris Emry, and the redoubtable Marty ('The Mellow Morning Mama') McLean. After a year at WAYE, Ty moved to WHFS in Bethesda, Maryland. This rather strong FM signal served both Baltimore and Washington and Ty rocked out for 3 years starting in the Spring of '72. With his First Class FCC ticket, Ty was also Chief Engineer at 'HFS. From '75 thru '77, he worked briefly at WEAM in Washington and then went back to WLMD in Laurel for a second cup of coffee. It was in March of 1977 that Ty Ford landed the big one. Production Manager for both WIYY-FM and 50,000 watt WBAL-AM in Baltimore. He would remain there for the next 10 years. In 1986, after the better part of 2 decades on the air, Ty left the grind and carried his talents to freelance voiceovers and productions. He is one of the most successful VO guys in the business. After I "graduated" from the "Hearst School Of Broadcasting", I went from freelance, to self-employed, to private practice, running my own studio. I have clients all over the country and around the world. I do very little voicework for local clients, although I started doing mostly local radio and TV spots. I work long distance, using ISDN, VOIP and an FTP server.' Even though his production company commandeers his time, he will on occasion dabble with on-air guest appearances, and has never lost his passion for radio. Ty comments, 'Many radio folks think radio is an exceptionally crummy, backstabbing business. Having been in and out, I can attest that radio doesn't have an exclusive on BS'. . ."

Ty is also a talented singer/songwriter/guitarist/vocalist and tireless promoter of the Baltimore/Washington local music scene. He is currently working on "The Thoughts Behind the Songs" which will take place at Germano's Piattini in Baltimore's Little Italy, Tuesday, March 28th at 7:30PM.

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Roads . . .

. . . diverge . . .

People talk about all kinds of things
Like the weather
Like their politics
Like the things that they watch on TV
But still the roads diverge

Funny though all this chatter don't mean a thing
When compared with the wondering
When they speak of just how
The roads diverge

There comes a moment
You’re suddenly face with a choice
All that you thought that you
Knew becomes smoke
And all of your detailed and
Best laid-out plans
Have become just one
Great big joke

Some will cope
Some will agonize endlessly
Pleading take this away from me
This decision I face
When roads diverge

Roads Diverge
Private performance of a newer composition, Roads Diverge © 2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Roads . . .

. . . diverge . . .

People talk about all kinds of things
Like the weather
Like their politics
Like the things that they watch on TV
But still the roads diverge

Funny though all this chatter don't mean a thing
When compared with the wondering
When they speak of just how
The roads diverge

Roads Diverge
©2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Psychology. . .

. . . Madison Avenue. . .

. . . and me. . .

As a TV-watching kid, I loved commercials. At least SOME commercials. Remember "I can't believe I ate the whole thing. . . You ate it Ralph!"? Not so much as a 'hardly-watch-any-TV' adult. In these days of cable television, Netflix and bluerays, not only do commercials turn me off, I refuse to even watch conventional, network (or local for that matter) television.

Do I want a medal? (Or just a chest on which to pin it?) Naw! Just musing about how popular entertainment and I, myself have changed.

As I write, commercial AM radio (yes Virginia, there STILL is an AM radio) is chattering in the background. One commercial, in particular, annoys me. It's one for the newest casino in the area and runs no risk of enticing me to patronize them at all. The the appeal to the base desire for attention, not to mention an easy fortune procured by gambling, is a fascinating psychological ploy.

"Everywhere you look there’s endless excitement and the kind of thrills you just don’t find anywhere else; like over 1,000 Vegas-style slot machines, the hottest Table Games around, dining that always gets two forks up and the kind of red carpet service you would expect in Hollywood."

I've been to Hollywood. Believe me, I am not the kind of person that gets 'red carpet service' let alone 'cheap, throw-rug' service in Hollywood. Just the regular-Joe-schmuck service that I (and most other regular people) get anywhere else.

It's good to dream. It's certainly good to possess a certain self-esteem. But don't confuse dreaming or self-esteem with crass commercialism. I think the lesson here is, quite simply and obviously, 'don't think that you won't lose money gambling just because you're pretending that you're a movie star.'

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Frightening. . .

. . . but true? . . . Is it any more unbelievable that what we were told????

(from http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/11/26/the-osama-bin-laden-myth/)
". . . The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated, al Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon. The interview was sensational. The alleged “mastermind” of 9/11 said that he and al Qaeda had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. The British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Monitoring Service had the interview translated into English and made public on September 29, 2001.

Osama bin Laden’s sensational denial was not reported by the US print and TV media. It was not investigated by the executive branch. No one in the US Congress called attention to bin Laden’s refusal of responsibility for the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on a superpower.

To check my memory of the lack of coverage, I googled “Osama bin Laden’s interview denying responsibility for 9/11.” Some Internet sites reproduced the interview, but the only mainstream news source that I found was a 1 minute YouTube video from CNN in which the anchor, after quoting an al Jazeera report of bin Laden’s denial, concludes that “we can all weigh that in the scale of credibility and come to our own conclusions.” In other words, bin Laden had already been demonized, and his denial was not credible. . . "

http://www.globalresearch.ca/interview-with-osama-bin-laden-denies-his-involvement-in-9-11/24697

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Television. . .

. . . and other things

Maybe it's me, but I don't like TV. Mind you, I think the technology involved is simply mind-blowing and it has developed in technological brilliance exponentially during the past sixty some years. But despite the glorious three-dimensional, high definition, digital 5.1 surround-sound audio, the quality content that one may very well expect to be delivered through this miraculous invention seems to be about as scarce as snow in July.

Louie C.K. though. . . pretty interesting.

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