Confusions of a Communications Man: Surviving Radio, TV, Movies, Journalism, and Advertising

by Greg B. Macabenta

A movie lot is, perhaps, the best analogy for the kind of world that a communications man moves in. Here, you mingle with millionaires, murderers, movie stars and magnates. You witness the transformation of Cinderellas, the metamorphosis of monsters, and the destruction of the indestructible. You see events from a different perspective. While average folks see things up front, you have a backstage view. They see the puppets. You see the puppeteers.Over time, you become jaded. You come to regard the impressive facades of sets and stars as casually as the mess of wires, ropes, poles, beams, tangled hair, bad breath, dirty costumes and unwashed faces that ordinary people do not see. The experience is always revealing. Sometimes, sickening. Often, confusing. You’re moving in the real world, but you sometimes find the truth so unreal that illusions are a welcome relief.

374 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2019