Publisher is Dead

by roger mitchell | May 18, 2025

This isn’t an article about failed business models of digital content, viewability metrics, or low programmatic CPMs. Alas no. But if you’re into that stuff……you may, en passant, like this old Column.  The fourth estate is bankrupt. The time for merely predicting what...

Papa’s got a brand new bag.

by roger mitchell | May 4, 2025

  The return of the Sunday Column last week was part of a TTMYGH five-essay compendium about Fourth Turnings, called Fin de Siècle. “Fin de siècle” is a French term meaning “end of century”, a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning...

The answer was here all the time.

by roger mitchell | Apr 18, 2025

  Middle-age has always been problematic. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita.   This opening line of Dante’s Inferno, before he descends through the gates and rings of Hell, is the poet’s...

Stray reflections in sport.

by roger mitchell | Dec 1, 2024

We end the Sunday Columns of 2024 today.  December for some is the start of Advent, a time of preparation for something more important than random blowhard opinions (on the sportsbiz). For most others, this month is just a time to start winding down for what is now...

The one with Sir Mike.

by roger mitchell | Nov 24, 2024

Sometimes, with the way events fall, this weekly Column is more diary than essay. Today is one of those days. At some point, I wanted him to say that it wasn’t an asset class. I wanted Sir Michael Moritz to say that sport should never be considered as an asset class....