LEGENDARY HAS A NEW NAME

Since the news platform broke the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal in 1998, the greatest success story in modern publishing has been the Drudge Report. Quick with breaking headlines. Politely counterculture. At the birth of the internet. It has even won design awards for its low tech minimalism.

Drudge has now been shoved off the dais.

As everyone now knows, CBS News has a new sheriff who is cleaning up the their dotty media town. Journo Bari Weiss is scripting an industry-shaking, American success story of study, belief, idea and grit.

She is the former NYT editor who got sick of their inane (woke) operating system. She flipped them the bird and in 2021 created a humble news outlet called Common Sense, now The Free Press, which has been dedicated to the principles of classic, old school journalism. Ideas and debate without a Molotov cocktail.

The Free Press grew so fast, attracting the finest writers and thinkers, that no one else in the publishing industry saw it speed past them.

The Ellison Family Mafia, the new owners of Paramount and CBS, are making a big play in the entertainment industry. They'd like to procure Warner Brothers as well.

What to do with CBS News? From a huge pool of the experienced and unemployed news publishing patriarchy, the Ellisons boldly chose Bari Weiss.

Dan Rather, the nonagenarian news fossil, questions her credentials and lack of television experience. Frankly, that's her selling point.

I hope Bari keeps a burning torch in her purse, ready for action. The Old Guard is toast.

The new CBS News will have a very loud impact on American journalism. An impenetrable hive will be broken open, blinding those invested inside.

We, the people, are realizing that we have to be diligent in our digital diet. If it tastes like cardboard, it is cardboard. Life is not an idle luxury. We have to think and question everything every day. True democracy, like love, demands action and effort.

The media industry has been steadfastly tanking for over a decade. Things just arent working and no one knows why. Bari Weiss is worthy of our attention. She and her cohorts are changing media publishing for the better. Buckle up!

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KEATON

It stopped me. The passing of Diane Keaton. What a gal.
She was quite the dresser.
And a talented polymath.
She was so beguiling. And so confounding.

And so vexing. Her appeal was so strong. I can see where a relationship might go wrong. She was the kind of woman that could drive a man to his bittersweet breaking point.

As a pre-puberty kid, fed on a Hollywood diet, I believed that every romance was a cloud-hopping fantasy that climaxed with a happy ending. The Woody Allen films with Diane Keaton shot that illusion to pieces. I learned that l'amour was complicated.

In those films, I fell in love with Diane Keaton, and like Woody, I made peace with the heartbreak. Her complicated characters taught me that sex was a very convoluted transaction, worthy of greater study.

Diane Keaton demanded that we regard her differently than we would any other cookie cutter celebrity. After her passing, I am realizing how exceptional she was. Her aesthetic was pristine and all good taste.

Keaton was a woman of action in all aspects of her life. That's my takeway: Ponder less and act spontaneously faster.

I hope a few links will amaze and inspire you, as it has me.

Video: A&E Biography, 'Diane Keaton: On Her Own', Click Here

Interview Magazine: 'Diane Keaton Takes Questions from 25 Famous Friends and Fans', Click Here

NYT: 'Why Diane Keaton’s Death Hits Harder', Click Here

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