Discuss: Breaking News vs. Page Views

Discuss: The media isn’t interested in breaking news anymore. They just want page views. Comment, please! PS: Flu, Disney World, stomach flu, return from Disney World, stomach flu, snowpocalypse. Longer posts resume next week.

The theatrical equivalent of Hot Or Not

Aaron Grunfeld has a fun weekly series going on over at his blog The Fifth Wall, wherein he reviews titles of plays. It’s kind of the theatrical equivalent of Hot or Not, since it is impossible to be substantive in the title. But it’s still kind of fun. I...

A bit more on that wacky Spider

The big Spidey bruhaha that exploded around the holidays is not injured actors, dangerous stunts or unrigged rigging. It was the audacity of Linda Winer of Newsday and Jeremy Gerard of Bloomberg to purchase tickets and give non-review reviews of the show. John Simon,...