Tag: Skin in the game

• The Media’s “Breaking News” Culture Is Broken

  Dear American News Media: Breaking news that broke more than an hour ago, is no longer “breaking”. The fact that you continue breaking it all day regardless? That is broken. The same goes for your whole “breaking news” culture. I write this to you as an avid consumer of your product. By “avid”, I mean…

  A L Katz

  December 12, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2016, Republicanism, Russia, The Branding Age, Trump

  Brain Trust, Breaking News, First Amendment, Free Press, journalism, News Media, Oleg Deripaska, Originalism, Paul Manafort, Polling Data, Richard Nixon, Skin in the game, Watergate

• Skin In The Game

  Simple fact of Life: games change when you have skin in them. A person will treat the home in which they live better if they own it versus if they rent it. Skin in the game. Elections are when Americans most have skin in the game. That’s the whole point of democracy – recognizing that…

  A L Katz

  November 5, 2022

  American News Media, Culture, Election 2022, New Ways of Thinking

  Civics, Conventional wisdom, Election 2022, Polling, Propaganda, Skin game, Skin in the game, swing voters, Violent crime, White suburban women, Young voters

• “I’m Trying To Think But Nothing Happens”

  I’m a movie nerd. Movie quotes and moments pop into my head constantly, like a highlighter being applied to my life in real time. One of those quotes pops up with alarming regularity these days. You don’t have to be a Three Stooges fan to appreciate the genius of Curly Howard’s exquisitely delivered “I’m trying…

  A L Katz

  March 5, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Magical Thinking, Rule of Law, Slavery, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  Confederacy, Conservatism, Conservatives, Curly Howard, I'm trying to think, Maya Angelou, Oliver Twist, Problem-Solving, Skin in the game, Slavery, Three Stooges, Workhouse