Monday, January 16, 2012
Opinion: Tim Tebow Is Jewish
By Marty Kaplan
“Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?” That was the headline last week on a blog posted by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane.. . .
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Opinion: Campaign colonics
By Marty Kaplan
What did I miss? For seven days I didn’t have salt, meat or CNN. My mornings began without “Morning Joe” or “Morning Edition”; I saw. . .
Monday, December 12, 2011
Marty Kaplan: Newt winked at me
By Marty Kaplan
Did you see how Newt Gingrich kept winking during the Dec. 10 Republican debate? I’ll bet you $10,000 I’m the one he was winking at.. . .
Monday, November 28, 2011
Opinion: Warning -- Political ads make you stupid
By Marty Kaplan
This is the disclaimer that Britain’s Public Interest Research Centre recently proposed for inclusion on billboards:. . .
Monday, November 14, 2011
Opinion: Keeping up with the Kandidates
By Marty Kaplan
"Are you not entertained?" That was Jon Stewart’s response to Rick Perry’s brain freeze. He said it twice, maniacally. “Are you not. . .
Monday, October 31, 2011
Opinion: How Occupy will end
No one knows what difference Occupy Wall Street will turn out to make.. . .
Monday, October 17, 2011
Opinion: Obama-Romney 2012
By Marty Kaplan
Forget the fantasy of Hillary Clinton taking Joe Biden’s place on the 2012 ballot. Not only because it is not going to happen. The theory that. . .
Monday, October 3, 2011
Opinion: Occupy K Street
By Marty Kaplan
It’s premature to give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Occupy Wall Street kids. But it also may be too soon to blow them off as clueless hipsters. . .
Monday, September 19, 2011
Opinion: Letting animals vote
By Marty Kaplan
You look terrific. Have you lost weight? Are you working out? You’ve got this glow about you. I bet you’re in love. Wait -- you were. . .
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Opinion: How did this happen to America?
By Marty Kaplan
It was while I was explaining to an Australian student that Rupert Murdoch was the reason America had gone batty that I realized how inadequate my. . .
Monday, July 25, 2011
What story is the Murdoch story?
By Marty Kaplan
Following several days of coaching by lawyers and PR experts, it must have been really rattling for Rupert and James Murdoch when show time arrived. . .
Monday, July 11, 2011
The “Obama’s brilliant strategy” theory
By Marty Kaplan
If you voted for Obama, here’s what you’re not supposed to be thinking:. . .
Monday, June 27, 2011
Marty Kaplan: Pessimism is the last taboo
By Marty Kaplan
If you pay attention to the news, the prospects for the future look grim.. . .
Friday, May 27, 2011
If Bachmann and Palin Weren’t Pretty
By Marty Kaplan
I wonder how much airtime Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) would get if she didn’t look the way she does. I wonder how much of Sara Palin’s political. . .
Friday, May 13, 2011
Don’t count on it
By Marty Kaplan
Please don’t run a countdown clock on the debt ceiling.. . .
Monday, May 2, 2011
Our friend Pakistan and other mental pretzels
By Marty Kaplan
On the same day that Americans are test-driving the idea that Osama bin Laden lived on the outskirts of Pakistan’s West Point, undetected, for six. . .
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The naked Nielsens
By Marty Kaplan
The metrics are wearing no clothes. How would you react if you found out that the basis of your business model was bogus? That’s the nightmare. . .
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Naked Nielsens
By Marty Kaplan
The TV business is built on advertising. Except for premium cable, the money that networks get for selling audiences’ eyeballs to advertisers is. . .
Monday, April 4, 2011
Moses, media piracy and the MPAA
By Marty Kaplan
If only people understood why they shouldn't do it, then they wouldn't do it.. . .
Monday, March 21, 2011
The more you watch, the worse you feel
By Marty Kaplan
As if the triple whammy of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster weren’t enough to enthrall and terrify us, the war in Libya is now. . .
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Al Jazeera English vs. The Charlie Sheen Channel
By Marty Kaplan
“This is strictly a business decision,” a Comcast source told Rupert Murdoch’s Web site MarketWatch about whether Comcast, the biggest cable. . .
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Streets
By Marty Kaplan
The power has gone out in a typical American town. Wait -- it’s not just the electricity. The phones don’t work, either. Portable radios are. . .
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Mitt Romney’s “South Park” primary
By Marty Kaplan
Egypt makes Mitt Romney look good – at least compared to other Republican presidential hopefuls.. . .
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
My favorite blowhard
By Marty Kaplan
I owe Keith Olbermann for enabling me to identify with Bill O’Reilly’s fans.. . .
