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It’s not secret that web based content companies are under fire. Facebook has been dragged over the coals of late, including a move by some major investors to replace founder and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg.  That’s serious stuff.  Others are talking...

Video is an incredibly powerful medium. It can hold your attention in ways that print simply cannot. It can move you emotionally. It can educate you. It can change the way your think. We are a society that is...

If you have ever seen the movie Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan (2017), or perhaps more esoterically, if you are a bit older, the film Mrs. Miniver, directed by William Wyler (1942), you’ll know the story of the miraculous...

We have just completed three weeks of Video Bootcamp in Los Angeles with the soon to be launched SoCal1, the LA equivalent of NY1, but in Los Angeles. I am looking forward to a truly incredible new concept in...

Television news in general, and local news in particular has remained pretty much static for the past 50 years or so. Take a look at early broadcasts of Walter Cronkite and The CBS Evening News and it is not...

Take a good look at the image above. This is a screen grab from my Instagram App. This is where I hit the ‘search’ icon, just to see what pops up. What pops up, over and over and over...

  The problem with new technologies is you never know how they are going to turn out. Once unleashed, they take on a life of their own, and more often than not, they end up killing their inventors. A...

500 years ago, or so, Johannes Gutenberg put paper to inked moveable type and set off a revolution in communications. Before Gutenberg, we were an oral culture. The law was the ‘King’s Word’, religion was The Word of God,...

Last Saturday, we launched a new kind of TV network, unlike anything that has ever been attempted before, and we did it in East New York, Brooklyn. The journalist AJ Leibling wrote in 1961 that ‘freedom of the press...

We are busy selling off our video cameras on eBay. Luckily, the are going like hotcakes. We used to own about 30 prosumer cameras. No more. What do we need them for?  We shoot everything on our iPhones. When...