As news outlets fight over who will interview boating accident survivor Nick Schuyler first, it sparks a question: Who would you pick, if the world’s media were beating at your door? Considering Florida’s habit of sparking national media stories, you may face that choice sooner than you think. H...

Ben Blank, who just died at age 87, was the guy who innovated the use of graphic images behind the talking head on the TV news. For most of the 1950s, television news broadcasts, in black and white, were visually austere. Anchors sat at small desks with a simple clock or map hanging on the wall behi...

There have always been high-profile "crisis manager" publicists; the guys (or gals) you call when a well-known person lands in serious trouble, whether it's Michael Jackson accused of child molestation or O.J. Simpson accused of murder. These were the folks who figured out how to handle th...

I am disgusted with the fashion in which the Queen has capitulated to the Golly-hating Nazis at the BBC. I used to admire the Queen till she started pushing the diversity agenda of the lefties, signed the Lisbon Treaty which gave over the country to EU control. The Queen took a coronation oath to se...

NBC just released a few more details about the day-long orgy of programming leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl. If you don't have the constitution -- or the bank account -- to brave the crowds at Raymond James in person, here's what you have to look forward to on TV's game day, from NBC's release: * ...

After this week's back and forth on extending the date for the digital TV transition, I've concluded one thing: There is no activity so simple or complex that Congress can;'t find a way to screw it up. The U.S. House of Representatives did not produce the 2/3 majority needed to fast-track the bill d...

  NBC Universal Sports chairman Dick Ebersol remained upbeat about sales of ads in Sunday's Super Bowl on a conference call with reporters minutes ago, despite admitting two 30-second spots remain unsold three days before the game. News reports earlier today said the network had four spots open...

Consider this number for a moment: 4,500. That's the number of media credentials issued for Sunday's Super Bowl, according to Tampa Bay and Co., Hillsborough County's version of the convention and visitors bureau. It's the second-largest media cattle call in Super Bowl history, drawing representativ...

As someone who has written for many years about the need for racial equality in our politics and our media, Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday presents a wonderful quandary. It's tough to avoid the celebratory tone drenching the media these last few days, from the soaring inaugural celebration tele...

When I first saw a news account citing Kawasaki disease as a possible cause of Jett Travolta's death, my journalism Spidey Sense started tingling like crazy. You see, my son suffered from Kawasaki as a toddler. It was a painful, frightening ordeal, in which he suffered a high fever and his extremiti...