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Continue reading →: Nice Girls Do Not Always Finish Last, but Bad Boys Can Be CanceledI’ve been a bit lax watching my favorite beauty gurus on YouTube lately, but you’d have had to be under a really heavy rock to not hear about the drama between Tati Westbrook and James Charles. Both are big name digital influencers with millions and millions of followers across multiple…
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Continue reading →: How Well Are You Marketing Yourself?I worked a conference with one of my clients this week. It was a small show, not a ton of traffic, so I had an opportunity to chat with a few of our fellow vendors. As company representatives they were primarily in the sales and marketing field. One gentleman and…
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Continue reading →: Is Freedom of the Press a Good Thing?Today is World Press Freedom Day. According to Gallup, the world in general is more likely to see the media as having a lot of freedom than it did a few years ago. “Across 133 countries surveyed last year – one of the deadliest on record for journalists – a median…
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Continue reading →: Meghan Markle, the Media and Our Vanishing Rights to Privacy, Decency and Giving Birth Without Photo ShootsSeveral things happened this week that have me thinking our perspective on the power of the media is skewed. It’s real, no doubt, but we’re missing something really basic. That might sound strange coming from a member of the media. But I like to think of myself as a different…
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Continue reading →: How Toxic Family Members Impact Your Career – and Your LifeI’ve followed the Turpin case for awhile now, and justice was served this week when David and Louise Turpin were each sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for torturing their children. It was an unusual case – at least I hope so. These California-based parents from hell kept…
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Continue reading →: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Code Switched – It’s Not the End of the WorldSo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) got some heat – shocker – for allegedly using a southern, “Black”-tinged drawl while speaking at Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network event last week. Atlantic Editor John McWhorter wrote an interesting piece defending AOC, saying that she slipped into a pattern of speech that is likely entirely natural…
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Continue reading →: Nipsey Hussle: Short Life, Untimely Death, Enduring, Undeniably Positive LegacyNipsey Hussle died this week. Or, he was shot and killed this week. I didn’t know much about him. I’d never listened to any of his music until it came time to write this blog, and I thought it was a fitting sound track. My first exposure to him was…
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Continue reading →: When It Comes to a Woman’s Money, What’s with the Punishment Slap on the Wrist?It seems like every other day some media or tech company is settling a lawsuit. Discrimination this, monopoly that, to the tune of millions of dollars. But I’ve noticed a pattern. When the suit involves women and minorities vs. say, a company, the restitution is considerably smaller. Take Vice Media,…
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Continue reading →: Media Influence Is so Bad, Apple Wants to Teach Critical ThinkingSome days I feel like a spectator in this really weird game of media bumper cars. As a career journalist, I have inside knowledge of how the media works. The good, the bad, and we all know things can get very ugly. But lately things seem especially wretched. Huge companies…
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