Mel Brooks’ “All About Me!” is a triumph — especially as an audiobook

Mel Brooks’ “All About Me!” is a triumph — especially as an audiobook

ByJosh Bernoff

If you love Mel Brooks, you’ll love his new autobiography All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. If you don’t love Mel Brooks, forget it, you’ll hate it. Here’s the deal with this book. Mel Brooks is an egomaniac. Mel Brooks thinks Mel Brooks is the greatest thing ever. Yes, it’s a joke…

Venerable Tribune Publishing, now “tronc,” spews techno-drivel
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Venerable Tribune Publishing, now “tronc,” spews techno-drivel

ByJosh Bernoff

Yesterday, Tribune Publishing, purveyor of news since 1847, changed its name to “tronc” (short for “Tribune Online Content.”) It’s now a “content curation and monetization company” — a company that makes money from content, what we used to call a media company. Today, I deconstruct the rest of its attempt to use techno-drivel to misdirect our attention from its…