It is Sunday and I’m lazy and have to grade college papers.
So I think I’m going to borrow a page from The Buffalo News opinion page and remind readers of this blog what I wrote about all week.
It is a great idea because it means I don’t have to do anything original.
In other words, I get a day off and reduce my workload.
It also might alert readers to something that they were unaware of because they were too busy to read on a certain day.
But I’ll have to admit taking a day off is my prime motivation. I’m guessing that The News policy gives the under-staffed and overworked crew that writes editorials time to recharge, too.
In any event, here is a summary of the week.
I took Monday off because it was a holiday and I discovered my hits go way down on holidays and weekends.
On Tuesday, I wrote about the death of NFL great Ollie Matson and my airplane ride with his son Ollie Matson Jr. years ago.
On Wednesday, I wrote about an unfortunate Twitter remark or tweet that Channel 4’s Melissa Holmes wrote to one of the Pegula daughters.
On Thursday, I had two blogs. The first dealt with the five New York State Emmy nominations that Channel 2 reporter Scott Brown received and the three-day suspension he received from the station.
The second dealt with anchor-reporter Mylous Hairston’s surprise resignation from Channel 4. Yes, that was Thursday, a day before The News got around to posting it online. When The News noted there were reports that Hairston got a severance package, it didn’t note that the report came from stilltalkintv.
On Friday, I wrote two more blogs about Hairston’s departure – one of which was an interview with him.
So if you missed any of the blogs, please enjoy them now on a lazy Sunday as I sit back and wait to see if James Franco (see above) and Anne Hathaway can be any good hosting the Oscars.
I doubt it. But I hope I’m wrong.
pergament@msn.com


Alan Pergament was the television critic for The Buffalo News for 28 years. He currently is an adjunct professor at Buffalo State College and Medaille College, teaching courses in communications. He also writes a monthly column on the media for Buffalo Spree magazine.



