The online audio companies are going through merger-growth spurts and legal battles. This time it is Tune-In versus Pandora. Tune-In is suing Pandora due to the failure of Pandora to deliver on an advertising contract involving Pandora’s “revolutionary”, “game-changing” new platform called Harmonic Audio Network which they claimed would improve ad placements to better align with brand values and improve listener engagement. TuneIn alleges Pandora “did not invest the resources and effort necessary to make the Network a successful sales platform” and points to “dismal sales” as proof. INSIDE RADIO By the way, INSIDE RADIO is one of many online information services instituting a pay wall. What will you do to get this information, pay – or — find it elsewhere online for free? It is a tough world here “online.”
Now, our twice-yearly plea to the masses: PLEASE stop using the following cliches:
Game changing
Reach out to
Having said that
That having been said
At the end of the day
Begs the question
Needless to say
Be that as it may (should only be spoken by a mustachioed gentlemen wearing a monocle)
The powers that be
Zeitgeist
The devil is in the details
For all intents and purposes
Break the glass ceiling
Tenuous at best
In a nutshell
Perfect storm
Paradigm shift
More often than not
Wait, what?
Say what?
Ya think?
If I hear you say it, I will call you on it. This can also be a drinking game. Turn on any news channel and wait for an anchor or guest talking heads to say any of these phrases.
ON A HAPPIER NOTE (take one drink):
Brian Lord found this gem: Tam Henry shows up on a music survey from the SF Bay area (LINK)…
Jason Remington • September 21, 2020
Storytelling
tell your story
….(Geez!)
Dick Ellingson • September 18, 2020
Another “Gag Me”: rock star, as in today’s New York Times:
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2nd Woman Appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Found Late-Life Rock Stardom”
Jason Remington • September 18, 2020
She slept thru most sessions. Lifetime appointments are wrong.
Jason Remington • September 18, 2020
In fact, I have shared my thoughts with her. She does not respond. Joyce Taylor, “You can’t handle the truth.” I also sent her a link to this post: https://qzvx.com/2020/09/18/there-is-something-wrong-with-the-black-mans-mind/
Dick Ellingson • September 18, 2020
Jason,
Have you made Joyce Taylor aware of this video? If so, how did she respond?
Jason Remington • September 18, 2020
Television continues to promote the ‘victim mentality”, with KING 5’s Joyce Taylor’s race baiting segment called “Facing Race”.
“‘Facing Race,’ to me, is an opportunity for our community to have some really challenging, difficult, honest, candid conversations about what it means to be black, Hispanic, Asian, white, privileged in this country and in the Northwest. What that actually means,” Taylor said.
What they won’t show on these segments is— some basic truth. That is explained in this short sermon from a black preacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFr0qvpxKI
Jason Remington • September 18, 2020
We at QZVX.com have phased in a plan to become carbon neutral by Thanksgiving. In order to make our blog sustainable, we have begun using only recycled 1’s and 0’s.
Dick Ellingson • September 13, 2020
There was a half hour commentary or public affairs program late Sunday night on KJR in the late fifties and early sixties hosted by Trudi Guberle. I once had a date with her niece Cicely Guberle. She wore blue contacts.
I think the names are spelled right . . .
Jason Remington • September 13, 2020
There was a radio commentary segment with that title, Let Me Say This About That. I think it ran on KJR in the 1960s.
Dick Ellingson • September 13, 2020
Quite frankly
Let me say this about that
Steven L. Smith • September 13, 2020
How about “with all due respect” which usually means the opposite.
Dick Ellingson • September 11, 2020
Just sayin’
Sooner rather than later
Speak truth to power
Let me be clear – or sometimes “perfectly clear” to demonstrate sincerity
But you know this – used following an obvious lie
Jason Remington • September 11, 2020
To be honest, anyone who uses the phrase, to be honest, is lying.
Steven Smith • September 12, 2020
“Truth to power” annoys the hell out of me. First, it sounds of new age babble. Then the truth is often backed up with opinion vs fact.
Dick Ellingson • September 12, 2020
Writ large
Fraught
You know
Sort of
So
Jason Remington • September 13, 2020
Agreed. That one gets me. You are correct. It is something you might see on a protest sign.
Jason Remington • September 10, 2020
Rated X – No one under 21 permitted without custodial parent, mean step-father, or estranged, somewhat deranged uncle. — Actually, that movie could be a modern day Disney production. Anything goes with Walt’s company. I assume R.P. is trans and black. It sounds like the makings of a grand broadway musical.
Dick Ellingson • September 10, 2020
Pizza as a verb originated at Pietro’s Pizza in Salem, about a mile from Oregon State Hospital. Pietro’s is where Randall Patrick McMurphy stopped for a few pies to go on the way to Depoe Bay for a boat ride with his fellow residents. After his shock treatment reward, R . P. began insisting his middle name was Pietro and his first was Renaldo, after Duncan Renaldo, “The Cisco Kid” of early TV. On the way to the restroom, he would shout “I hafta pizza!!!” R. P.’s heirs sold the rights to “Pizza as a Verb” to their cousin Patty Polly “Pee Pee” Murphy (not the senator) who had a city-wide chain of transparent pay toilets which she refitted as Pee Pee Murphy’s Pizza Parlors with the slogan, “See Pee Pee Pizza”.
(The scenes noted above are only available in the director’s cut.)
Jason Remington • September 8, 2020
TV Commercials:
P*p* Murph pizza “Change the way you pizza.” When did pizza become a verb?
Dick Ellingson • August 13, 2020
Let me be clear.
Jason Remington • August 13, 2020
Make no mistake
Jason Remington • August 11, 2020
When did “button” become “but in”? I hear it from all the younger generation. It is ignorance on display.
Brian Lord • August 10, 2020
Keep protesting and we’ll be the cover for the idiots that want to damage and steal. The businesses don’t care and the taxpayers don’t mind.
Brian Lord • August 10, 2020
Here’s a new one……defund the police
Jason Remington • August 10, 2020
Crime will increase, it will be condoned by city council, laws will be relaxed, and once each year, a day will be set aside for THE PURGE.
Dick Ellingson • August 10, 2020
lean in
Jason Remington • August 9, 2020
sustainable workplace
Dick Ellingson • August 9, 2020
non-starter
Dick Ellingson • August 8, 2020
sooner rather than later
work smarter, not harder
Jason Remington • August 7, 2020
team player
grow the business
Dick Ellingson • August 7, 2020
bad optics
Dick Ellingson • August 7, 2020
Who knew?
Dick Ellingson • August 7, 2020
“Immediately” in a news story: “An attorney for the committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.”
Drop “Immediately”. Nobody responded. You were ignored.
Jason Remington • August 7, 2020
Just read this in a news story this evening, and thought of you. (How sweet, huh?) “A federal court in Colorado issued a new arrest warrant involving the prison escape and Archuleta was arrested in the small town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Santa Fe. He is being represented by the Office of the Federal Public Defender, which did not immediately respond Friday to a phone message seeking comment on Archuleta’s behalf.