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A Cool, Not Cold Guy: Remembering David Brown

We were sitting at the Slanted Door down on the Embarcadero a few years ago, watching a procession of young, swan-like and striking women walk languidly by to their tables. There are lots of beautiful San Franciscans but this was weird, like there was ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Feb 2010
Related Topics: Cosmopolitan Magazine,  Tiger Woods

Phil Bronstein: Keeping Your New Year's Resolution is a Matter of National Security...

Full-body scans are like your first visit to a nude beach. Or Barack Obama's first year in office: unreasonably high expectations dashed by dumpy, lumpy pedestrian reality. I'm not sure how you feel, but I don't want to be anywhere near an airport ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, Huffington Post,  1 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Phil Bronstein,  Barack Obama,  Karl Rove,  Transportation Security Administration,  Max Baucus

Keeping your New Year's resolution is a matter of national security...

Full-body scans are like your first visit to a nude beach. Or Barack Obama's first year in office: unreasonably high expectations dashed by dumpy, lumpy pedestrian reality. I'm not sure how you feel, but I don't want to be anywhere near an airport ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Karl Rove,  Victoria's Secret,  Transportation Security Administration,  Calvin Klein,  Barack Obama

Phil Bronstein: 2009's Headline Dads: A Year in the Garden of Good and Evil

Balloon Boy dad and Brazil Boy dad were year-end brackets for our ongoing Walt Disney public narrative. There's good and there's bad; if you're not sure where the lines are, the media will generally draw them for you in very clear and melodramatic ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, Huffington Post,  28 Dec 2009
Related Topics: David Goldman,  Phil Bronstein,  Meredith Vieira,  Falcon Heene,  Barack Obama

2009's headline dads: A year in the garden of Good and Evil...

Balloon Boy dad and Brazil Boy dad were year-end brackets for our ongoing Walt Disney public narrative. There's good and there's bad; if you're not sure where the lines are, the media will generally draw them for you in very clear and melodramatic ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Dec 2009
Related Topics: David Goldman,  Falcon Heene,  Meredith Vieira,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Salvation Army - naughty or nice?

The Army's official same-sex statement suggests it's unlikely those cheery volunteers ringing bells over red kettles will be donning gay apparel anytime soon. While homosexuals are not "blameworthy," the statement says, "Scripture forbids sexual ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Salvation Army,  Twitter Inc

Phil Bronstein: The Whole Truth, and Nothing but -- Now Open for Negotiation?

More potential bad news for journalists searching for their future value, and also for the public hoping to sort out the massive scrum of big-pipe web info. What the hell are facts, anyway? How and where do we find them? Are they the same as the truth? ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, Huffington Post,  10 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Jimmy Wales,  Phil Bronstein,  Howard Rheingold,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The whole truth, and nothing but -- now open for negotiation?

More potential bad news for journalists searching for their future value, and also for the public hoping to sort out the massive scrum of big-pipe web info. What the hell are facts, anyway? How and where do we find them? Are they the same as the truth? ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Howard Rheingold,  Jimmy Wales,  New York Times Company,  Ronald Reagan

Eye on the Tiger. OR: Will the real Phil Bronstein please stand up?

Wait, where was I and when? I had a great time at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington the other night. Or I might have, if I'd been there. But, wait, I was there. Even though I was also here in San Francisco, 3,000 miles away AT EXACTLY THE SAME ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  8 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Phil Bronstein,  National Enquirer,  Tiger Woods

Phil Bronstein: When's a Crash Like a Train Wreck? When We Can't Look Away...

In the film, "The Paper," Michael Keaton's editor character explains to a reporter that you can always get past a police barricade or most other obstacles "with a clipboard and a confident manner." Wherever they take their bows -- reality TV, ...

From PHIL BRONSTEIN, Huffington Post,  30 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Phil Bronstein,  Michael Keaton,  Secret Service,  White House

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