Not Necessarily The News, by Mike Gold

Mike Gold

ComicMix's award-winning and spectacularly shy editor-in-chief Mike Gold also performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com and on iNetRadio, www.iNetRadio.com (search: Hit Oldies) every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check www.getthepointradio.com above for times and on-demand streaming information.

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6 Responses

  1. Vinnie Bartilucci says:

    There was a fine novel a while back called Dwarf Rapes Nun; Flees in Ufo – a Novel of Journalism by Arnold Sawislak that dealt with the (at the time) increasingly common practice of turning staid traditional newspaper into seamy yellow rags. And does anyone but me remember a delighful Britcom from the early 90's called Hot Metal about the British tabloid insustry?"It’s sad that New York journalism has deteriorated to this level."If anything, they've got a ways to go till they return to the glory days of yellow jourablism, where stories were regularly cut from whole cloth. Giant telescopes revealing bat-creatures on the moon, the escape of the animals in the Central Park Zoo…classics from the days when people had both a pair and a sense of humor.

  2. Lord Snooty says:

    I do remember "Hot Metal" but feel "Drop the dead donkey" UK TV show did a better job of showing journalism on the slide.

    • Mike Gold says:

      "Drop the dead donkey" would be perceived as a right-wing political show out here in the States, probably on Fox.Hmmm… I think we've given 'em an idea.

  3. Glenn Hauman says:

    Sorry, but you've forgotten the New York Daily News headline reporting a state transit bailout in 1980: SICK TRANSIT'S GLORIOUS MONDAY.

    • Mike Gold says:

      I didn't forget it. It just ain't no HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR.And NYC's transit is still sick.

  4. Russ Rogers says:

    One of the most commented stories here in recent days is the Harry Bliss/Jack Kirby Kerfuffle, a story championed by the New York Post. Hmm.http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/04/behind-th