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In the future, Andy Warhol once said, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. He said that in 1968, and in 1968 that was pretty prescient. Mass media (three TV networks were considered mass in those days), and they...

When I was a student at Williams College in the 1970s, education consisted of our sitting in a classroom while a professor gave a lecture and then took questions. The ‘computer lab’ at Williams in those years consisted of...

One hour can change your life. It did mine. At my age I can start to look back on the life that I have lived with a degree of satisfaction. It has been fascinating, it has been fun, it...

Up until now, the worlds of entertainment (TV) and retail sales have been two circles that crossed only briefly – when retail bought ads on cable networks. Essentially, what happened was any store leased a few 30 second slices...

First they came for the classifieds with Craigslist, but I did not speak up, because I did not make my living through classifieds. Then they came for the music business with iTunes, but I did not speak up, because...

The First Amendment of the Constitution is all about a free press. Congress shall make no law abridging a free press, it says. The reason it says that, and the reason that it is the First is that the...

Journalists love to extol a Free Press… That is, until they are actually faced with one. Then, they recoil in horror. On the front page of this morning’s New York Times Business Section, there as an interesting article that...

Tuition at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism costs an eye-watering $83,844 a year. That is a LOT of money. And CJS is only a one-year program. If you are going to a university as a journalism major, and it’s a...

There was a fascinating news story on CBS This Morning (this morning). As Trump was in Korea, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy went to Dandong, North Korea, to do a story about the massive amount of trade that goes...

Max Lanman’s girlfriend had a problem. She had an old 1996 Honda Accord, with 141,095 miles on it that she wanted to sell. She was asking $499. Now, in the olden days, if you wanted to sell a used...