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Media Matters
Where cool meets, uh, weird: This fall Roy Orbison, the iconic R&R crooner, will return for a 28-date concert tour beginning Oct. 1 in Oakland, Calif. He comes to Clearwater on Nov. 19. Make that the LATE Roy Orbison. He died in 1988. It’s actually a hologram of Orbison that will tour North America. Virtual Orbison will perform 16 songs, including “Only the Lonely” and “Oh, Pretty Woman,” and be accompanied by a live orchestra.
There’s apparently a market for Sean Spicer. Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Among those who receive entirely too much local news coverage: race-baiting provocateur Tony Daniel and wrestler-lout Hulk Hogan. Enough.
We know all too well about the travails of print media—from digital to demographic. Now add tariffs on newsprint. Here’s the bottom-line take of Paul Tash, the chairman and CEO of the Tampa Bay Times. “The tariffs would add $3.5 million a year to our newsprint expenses, an extra cost we simply cannot absorb,” said Tash. “Already this year we’ve laid off 50 employees, including some veteran reporters and editors.” Indeed, we’ve noticed.