ADVERTISING INNOVATORS MAY LEARN FROM PARTISAN POLITICAL COMMERCIALS BY CANDIDATES LIKE DONALD TRUMP Shameless propaganda depicts politicians as flawless heroes BRASHNESS AND BLUSTER; CRITICIZING, NAME-CALLING   By David Maril   You have to figure advertising executives who produce television commercials are always hard at work, re- thinking their approaches to peddling their products and […]

  EXCITEMENT, INTRIGUE, FEAR & CONTROVERSY OVER HARPER LEE’S “NEW” NOVEL’S RELEASE PROVES PRINTED BOOKS ARE FAR FROM DEAD As Enoch Pratt gets long-awaited refurbishing, what can we expect from libraries of the future? ARE PUBLIC LIBRARIES JUDGING BOOKS BASED ON POPULARITY, RATHER THAN ON QUALITY, IMPORT & SIGNIFICANCE? Entertainment centers? …or guardians of history? […]

  A Voice of Baltimore Commentary —————————       —————————       ————————— ‘OLE STROM,’ GEORGE WALLACE, ‘THE DONALD’ AND THE RACIST DOOFUS FROM ’SEINFELD’ ENLIVEN PRESIDENTIAL SWEEPSTAKES Could American politics sink any lower?   By Jay Liner   If you’ve been genuflecting lately over Donald Trump’s ugly display of affection for the Mexican murderers and rapists that have […]

  LIKE MARION BARRY, MAYOR-FOR-LIFE DESPITE FLAWS Rawlings-Blake fails to convey vision for the future, or to build confidence she is in control ORIOLES’ FEAST-OR-FAMINE HOME RUN & STRIKEOUT OFFENSE DOOMS HOPE OF 2015 CHAMPIONSHIP   By David Maril   While wondering, after an announcement of the arrival in November of her fourth book, if […]

  WHO ARE ALL THESE STUBBORN, INDECISIVE CITIZENS THAT THE POLITICIANS ARE COURTING? What does it take to win this voting bloc over? A COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PROJECT PROFILING THESE UNNAMED VOTERS MAY SHED LIGHT ON THIS MYSTERY   By David Maril   All through political campaigns, whether it’s national or local, we keep hearing about […]