Bob Garfield

Bob Garfield (born c. 1955) is an American journalist and commentator. He is the co-host of the On the Media show on National Public Radio. Until 2010, he wrote the "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age. Garfield was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and a longtime advertising analyst for ABC News. He has also been employed as an on-air analyst for CBS News, CNBC, PBS, and the Financial News Network.

Career

Garfield began his career as a reporter for the Reading Times from 1977 to 1981. He has been a columnist for USA Today and contributing editor for Civilization and the Washington Post magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Wired, and many other publications.

A collection of his work, titled Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner's in 1997. A second book, And Now a Few Words from Me, appeared in 2003. Garfield co-wrote "Tag, You're It", a country song performed by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the situation comedy Sweet Surrender. In 2009, he published a book about the collapse of the media landscape called The Chaos Scenario. His first novel, Bedfellows, was published in October 2012. In 2013, he co-authored a non-fiction book with Doug Levy called Can't Buy Me Like.