My father predicted the death of newspapers sometime around 1978 or so.   I was a senior in high school, wondering about professions.  He made this casual observation:

“I would steer my kids out of the newspaper business, because my guess is it will be dead in a decade or two.”

That prediction of his lingered on in my mind for decades, and when, for a time, we began to see big thick copies of the New York Times printed in every city in America and when I tried to place a minuscule but very expensive advertisement in the Los Angeles Times for an event on Riley’s Farm, I began to wonder if the open casket viewing had been prematurely arranged. Continue Reading »

Today’s content is only for those folks who have “Joined the Colony.”  You can do that, right now, here, and you even get FOUR HOURS of 18th century drama for your trouble.   Go to it, soldier!

It’s no secret that we charged head-long into the television business because we hate the current gate-keepers and what they have done to American culture.  For the most part, programming executives are timid, trendy, brand-obsessed, story-challenged, absurdly self-content know-nothings.    I have built up such contempt for these people that our executive producer, Jonathan Wilson, gets nervous when we take a meeting. Continue Reading »