Today’s Wall Street Journal feature on the excessive salaries of National Hockey League players which are putting the 30-team league in financial peril, should be an eye opener for all professional athletes. NHL players certainly are not the highest paid when compared to baseball, football and basketball stars of the Major Leagues, National Footbll Leacgue… Continue reading
It was amusing to read Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman bemoan the fact that liberals have no one in the media to match Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter. The reason, of course, is quite simple: Rush, Bill and Ann reflect the conservative views of the more people in the United States. Since she… Continue reading
Watching the frenzied coverage of Hurricane Isabel by TV reporters during the past week as the storm plodded its path up the South Atlantic Ocean to the Carolina coast, most viewers must have wondered whether the television legmen had ever been in a big storm before. While Isabel didn’t live up to television’s hopes and… Continue reading
amNew York, the new, free commuter tabloid that is slated to begin publishing in NYC in January, is certain to cut substantially into the circulations of the New York Daily News and the New York Post—Gotham’s reigning tabloids. According to Boston Globe media watchguard Mark Jurkowitz, the Empire State venture is being launched by Russel… Continue reading
Today’s big Boston Globe feature in its on-going promotion of the zealots who supposedly have been living in a tree on Wachusett Mountain to prevent development of a 1,500 foot ski trail there, prompts one to wonder why the Globe doesn’t take and publish photos of them during the night while they are asleep in… Continue reading