TORONTO – The January issue of Golf Digest is on the newstands now and it is a fine illustration of the perils of magazine publishing and its long lead times. The cover story (illustrated above) is 10 tips Obama can take from Tiger. Ahem, as they say in the biz.
“Ahem,” […]
TORONTO — Further to my post on Monday, I’d like to elucidate some of the “why” behind my unsolicited (and unrequited) advice to Tiger Woods. I advised then, and reaffirm now, that Tiger shouldn’t follow the reams of PR advice being proffered by experts in the media.
The show gets weirder
In a truly Alice in Wonderland […]
TORONTO — Just a few “quick hits” in the blog today.
Obama to land in Kabul soon?
With U.S. president Barack Obama currently on a tour of Asia after the APEC conference, and the world waiting for him to announce his decision on a way forward in Afghanistan, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him pop up […]
TORONTO — First, let me say that my thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and wounded in yesterday’s horrific shooting incident at Fort Hood in the U.S. Second, let me say how disappointing it was watching the “insta-news” media machine grind through the day.
Much of what I’m going to cover in […]
TORONTO – Today’ surprising announcement that U.S. president Barack Obama is the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize must have the leader of the free world pulling his hair out.
Sure, it’s an amazing honor. And, it’s something to highlight on your resume if (a) you’ve won one and (b) if people believe you’ve earned […]
DUBAI — I had an unusual chance on Wednesday to watch the back end of U.S. president Barack Obama’s press conference on health care. He answered a number of questions
with answers that were, for a politician, unusually lengthy and detailed. The last question was off-topic, asking for his opinion of the hoopla surrounding the arrest […]
DUBAI — An article in today’s Los Angeles Times provides good evidence that the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan “gets it” when it comes to counter-insurgency warfare there. The article announces a new U.S. military policy to forego body counts in future press releases.
For some time now, ISAF and U.S. military spokespeople have touted the […]
TORONTO — Michael Jackson is still dead. Film at, well… continuously.
LIMBO — As I watch the U.S. coverage of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s fall from grace, I wonder at the role that religion plays in American politics. And, what role religious homogeneity plays in that nation’s ascendancy as a super power.
Without doubt, the U.S. is a superpower. Somewhat less clear, is whether this superpowerdom […]
LIMBO — So what?
I mean, really. So, what?
You’d think the Earth had stopped spinning on its axis, if all you had access to was American “news” media. Note that I put quotation marks around “news” because there’s not much news on American “news.”
As soon as rumours began circulating about Michael Jackson’s death, all the major […]