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Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: My Friend Mike

Elwood Edwards died last week. Can’t place the name? Chances are you’ve heard him speak. Edwards, an employee at TV station WKYC in Ohio, was the...

16.11.2024 10

Yuma Sun

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Peter Funt: Women lead the fantasy football surge

by Peter Funt on October 23, 2024 In a memorable "Saturday Night Live" football sketch from 2016, Vanessa Bayer toils in the kitchen preparing...

25.10.2024 5

El Dorado News Times

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Opinion: Fantasy Football

by Peter Funt on August 27, 2024 Fantasy football is played by more than 50 million Americans -- and we're all experts. Of course, my expertise...

31.08.2024 5

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Fantasy football: A game of mistrust

Fantasy football is played by more than 50 million Americans – and we’re all experts. Of course, my expertise usually costs me money while the...

31.08.2024 7

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Guest Column: Biden, without rose-colored aviators

If Kamala Harris manages to become the 47th U.S. president it will be despite Joe Biden, not because of him. Biden is a decent man and an honorable...

29.07.2024 9

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Guest Column: Biden needs grade-schooling

Joe Biden’s closest confidants are wrestling with the same questions that 81.2 million of us who voted for him in 2020 have been mulling since the...

12.07.2024 4

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Guest Column: The NFL is always ready for some football

The other night the National Football League commandeered two hours of prime time on ESPN for what used to be accomplished in a minute or two with a...

23.05.2024 10

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Guest Column: What’s with all the big stuff?

After years of trying to develop what he called a “premium” hamburger, McDonald’s CFO Ian Borden surprised no one the other day by announcing...

29.03.2024 8

Yuma Sun

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What's with all the big stuff?

By Peter Funt After years of trying to develop what he called a "premium" hamburger, McDonald's CFO Ian Borden surprised no one the other day by...

22.03.2024 7

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Our obsession with true crime

In television, now more than ever, crime pays. A search for “true crime” on Netflix produced 300 titles. Nearly half of Apple’s top 20 podcasts...

19.03.2024 10

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Big pharma's song and dance

By Peter Funt The earworm "1-8-7-7 Kars 4 Kids" always struck me as a stellar example of how insufferable advertising can be when its creators really...

05.03.2024 20

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Big pharma’s song and dance

The earworm “1-8-7-7 Kars 4 Kids” always struck me as a stellar example of how insufferable advertising can be when its creators really put their...

29.02.2024 20

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Guest Column: Billy Joel’s AI State of Mind

A friend who reviews music and interviews top performers for a newspaper in New England, was up early Feb. 1 to sample the release from pop legend...

15.02.2024 4

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Did you really think TV would ditch ads?

By Peter Funt So, you thought by cutting the cable-TV cord you'd avoid exorbitant monthly fees and those dreaded commercial interruptions. Now, you've...

05.02.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Pebble Beach benches celebrities

At a time when the presence of celebrities seems to overwhelm professional sports (Taylor Swift, I’m looking at you in your sparkly Travis Kelce...

25.01.2024 6

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Tom Smothers was serious about politics

Tom Smothers wasn’t the first performer to weaponize comedy for political purposes, but he was perfectly suited for it. During the height of his...

06.01.2024 5

Yuma Sun

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TV news puts its trust in women

10.12.2023 20

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: TV news puts its trust in women

Apple TV’s “The Morning Show,” which recently ended its third season, offers a melodramatic mishmash of media and current events, yet manages to...

08.12.2023 10

Yuma Sun

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