Legacy Media

It’s the content, stupid

When the facts are with you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. At the risk of Perry Masonizing, it seems a case of denial is playing out in the legacy media and it’s an open-shut case. The Associated Press reports: In TV’s worst spring in recent memory, a startling[.....]

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The gray lady goes live

"I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either," says New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, the paper’s owner, chairman and publisher. Talk about a shock to the system. I remember seeing The Gray lady in person for the first time. The granite[.....]

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WSJ: As 30′s Fade, what’s next?

Advertising’s workhorse, the 30-second commercial, is fading as a means of hawking products and services. Ad executives will be busy in 2006 trying to figure out what to put in its place. Good luck to them: Audiences are splintering off in dozens of directions, watching TV shows on iPods, watching movies on videogame players and[.....]

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Changing faces

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It’s happening again…

Nestled beneath my ’66 Oldsmobile Delta 88′s dashboard hung a marvel of technology granting me access to broadcasts mere mortal AM radios couldn’t. It was a brave new static-free world called FM. My FM adapter is early evidence of what is obvious to all who know me: I am an early adopter. Live long enough[.....]

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