Posted 7:25 PM by Gene

If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:



1. Stuck with its equity building name, PEOPLE WARNER CABLE is changing its logo, removing the last vestiges of a funeral director and SYNERGY. When Steve Ross (Steve Who?) devised this eye 'n' ear for his squooshed-together media monster PEOPLE WARNER back in 1990 the scribblers at TIME INC.!!!!!!!!!! fumed because they thought it was relegating them to the newly merged company's basement -- why, hadn't their patented sycophancy made the wedding possible? But he'd spent a small fortune on a prime-time ABC show touting the world-saving benefits of the merger, a precursor of the world saving of the late GERRY LEVIN, and he no doubt spent another small fortune on the logo, so it had to go someplace, and it eventually wound up with the cable unit. Now that the cable unit's split from PEOPLE WARNER there's no further need for Steve Who or his fictions.

2. And speaking of SYNERGY, there's no need for CABLE NUISANCE NETWORK to worry where its next meal will come from, so long as it can steal from the cupboards of its turnips, and further convince the generous sugar daddies there's a place for irrelevance in the news, and though all the cable news nuisances fight daily to be irrelevant for now it is no contest.