Are Newspapers Poised to Replace Local TV Stations?
Please Stand By…… Its called ‘leapfrog technology’. Its the ability to bypass an old infrastructure completely and go immediately to what the newest technologies can create. Vietnam’s adaptation of mobile phone technology is an example of leapfrog. Rather than...
Read moreThe NY Times with Katie Couric?
A little to the left….. a little to the right…. OK… wait…. Technologies have the ability to turn the world upside down without our even noticing. Not too many years ago, TV signals came into your house through the...
Read moreDalton Sports Radio
Don’t touch that dial…..dial? What’s a dial? When I was a kid, I used to lay in bed at night, in the dark, and listen to WOR radio, 720 AM. Every night, at 10pm, Jean Shepherd ran a show....
Read moreTo Be or Not To Be
This morning, I sat down to write a blog entry that was going to be called “The World Turned Upside Down”. It was going to start with a quote from David Halberstam’s book The Powers That Be. I remembered...
Read moreDo The Right Thing
Don’t point that cell phone at me! The New York Times is carrying a story today that Nokia and filmmaker Spike Lee have signed a deal to create content out of ‘User Generated Content” made on Nokia phones. Nokia...
Read moreNBC Green is Universal is Crap
While NBC preaches Green and urges you to cut back, they burn the midnight oil. I have just finished reading James Lovelock’s The Revenge of Gaia. Lovelock is the British scientist who formulated the Gaia Theory almost 40 years...
Read moreSafran’s Back
Steve Safran, longtime media critic/consultant, and founder of Lostremote.com ( as well as the man who introduced me to blogging) is back with his own blogsite: Mediareinvent. com One of the most original minds in the online media world,...
Read moreAll In The Family
President Obama is a what???? Passover in Miami with my family and my nephew Adam, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, is working on a paper for his “Media and Culture” class. The topic is the impact...
Read moreEmpowerment
No drugs in FCP…. When he walked into the training room for the Travel Channel Academy, he was hard to miss. DEA uniform. Gleaming bald head and a South Carolina good old boy accent that made Sheriff Taylor sound...
Read moreAn Open Letter to Les Moonves
Dear Mr. Moonves, With the announcement that Katic Couric will seek an early end to her contract with The CBS Evening News, and the equally dismal ratings for CBS This Morning, perhaps it is time to look for a...
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