Sony ‘R’ Us
The most shocking thing about the digital disemboweling of Sony Pictures’ computer data is that anyone would actually find it shocking.
Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His Jewish Journal columns have won First Place in the Southern California Journalism Awards six times in the past six years. Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com
The most shocking thing about the digital disemboweling of Sony Pictures’ computer data is that anyone would actually find it shocking.
Is he – finally – the one we’ve been waiting for?
When I heard my research into the amount of time local TV news spends on crime (plenty) and government (nearly nada) coming out of Jake Gyllenhaal’s mouth, I could have kissed him.
When the young woman in the seat next to me asked the flight attendant for a glass of cabernet, I took it as a sign that projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea would not be part of my trip from PHL to LAX.
On the day after the Sept. 23 UN Climate Change Summit in New York, sunset will bring the High Holy Days to Jews around the world.
What brand doesn’t belong on this list? Amazon, Uber, Yelp, Hillary.
By this point in the summer, a sane person could reasonably conclude that the world is going nuts. Spiraling out of control, descending into darkness, making optimism a delusional last recourse – that kind of feeling
Though the size of Warren Bennis’s obituary in the New York Times was epic – all six columns across, filling most of the space above the fold on the back page of the A section – its text made no mention of something about him I always thought inextricable from who he was and the success he achieved.