Having worked in the advertising world for almost 30 years, I can finally divulge the highly secretive, arcanely complex relationship between television news shows and their corporate advertisers: 1) Television news shows go off-the-air, unless they get money from their corporate advertisers: 2) Corporate CEOs – who control their companies’ advertising budgets – are constantly […]

It’s an election year.  And you can’t help but chuckle when the celebrity brain trust in Hollywood tries to act out its quadrennial, superheated air of faux intellectual gravitas. Though Hollywood celebrities spend their lives in a real-world Magic Kingdom – a climate-controlled, airbrushed, CG’d, surrealistic existence – once every four years, they emerge from […]