Monthly Archive: March 2022

Who Buys These Lies?

There is no end to the takes, fakes, and rakes confronting us every second, minute, and hour of every day. On air “personalities” reading stuff somebody has made up sometimes promoting with dumb ass...

Words That Anger

The Rooney Rule is a National Football League (NFL) policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. The rule is named after Dan Rooney, the former...

Coachspeak

We are in a world where talk trumps data. People with nothing to say make a living saying nothing at all. This is no more evident than in the drivel of highly paid college...

Creating a Narrative

There was a time when reporting was about sharing objective and interesting stories about things that happened. In the cesspool of fabricating, fostering, and furthering lies on the Internet, television, and radio, reporting is...

Golf Announcing for Dummies

I always struggled with the “what do you want to be when you grow up” question. My early life was a collection of “do this, don’t do that” advice that seldom matched what I...

These Guys Are No Geniuses

Selling technology like it is a personal achievement to be seen driving without touching the steering wheel or watching a supposed intruder at your front door from work. And the beat goes on in...

Breaking News

When did we hit the point where anybody with a pointless POV can get in front of people and have what they are saying viewed as something that matters? Just because their lips are...

Breaking Wind

Blowing smoke. Pandering. Passing Gas. Pimping. Kissing ass. Whatever you call it, broadcasters and politicians are full of it in efforts to appear sincere and promote and create advantage in mindless conversation. There is...

Nothing for Nothing

Tony could have been a world-class challenger if word play was a serious or competitive activity rather than something to do for fun. He was always on the lookout for amusing, scheming, or self-promoting...

Thanks for Nothing

I often wonder if it wouldn’t be helpful to stand behind some people and shout “liar” and their names…Give some people a microphone or “ad copy” to speak and they will think they have...