THE MEDIA BEAT HAS LOST A VOICE. Early on a Friday morning for seventeen years, Marshall Miles would talk with me to create the half-hour radio version of this column. But now Marshall has died, departing this world on June 24th, 2023. Continue reading “Losing a Powerful Broadcaster” »
Untold Story Behind Unlikely Peace Mission
UKRAINE’S NEW AND LONG-AWAITED counteroffensive against the Russian invasion has made this a bad time to be a peacemaker.
Much of the world’s press decried the attempt to start talks, led by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa (photo-montaged, left, with warring presidents). Continue reading “Untold Story Behind Unlikely Peace Mission” »
Family Burdens In A Sharp Re-Telling
Dateline Dublin, Ireland — THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON, of course, why a country’s national theater shouldn’t perform a classic play from a completely different nation. Continue reading “Family Burdens In A Sharp Re-Telling” »
Press Jamboree over Trump Criminal Case – Obfuscating Precise Detail
MY LOCAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY is the dogged Alvin Bragg. We are both boosters of our shared hometown, in our somewhat different ways. Continue reading “Press Jamboree over Trump Criminal Case – Obfuscating Precise Detail” »
The Story of Meeting Needs
Dateline AUSTIN, Texas: “THEY DON’T WANT OUR PITY. THEY WANT OUR RESPECT!” That was the message from uber-chef José Andrés, famous already for feeding people in successful restaurants and on TV shows, but now elevated to the status of global humanitarian hero-figure. Continue reading “The Story of Meeting Needs” »