The 500 Year Media Storm – What Happens Now?
That’s all there is…. This is the Monastery at Dale Abbey in England. Or at least all that’s left of it. Monasteries were big business in the 15th Century, at least until Henry VIII got hold of them. When...
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Where did they do their dry cleaning? Yesterday, killing time in England before heading to Israel, I caught the old Richard Burton film Anne of a Thousand Days, the Anne Boelyn story. Personally, I thought that Showtime did a...
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Go make money…. My friend and Columbia classmate Barbara Selvin is a professor of journalism at Stony Brook on Long Island. Every year, she invites me to come and talk to the class. Â I am going on Friday. Yesterday,...
Read moreWhat Is News Worth?
Single white female seeks…. Following the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour in 1537, King Henry VIII of England was convinced to marry Anne of Cleves (pictured above), to cement an alliance with the newly Protestant German state....
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Masters of the Universe, ca. 1526…2008 The portrait above left is Sir Thomas More done by Hans Holbein the Younger around 1526. At the right, Steve Jobs. More was the Privy Counselor to King Henry VIII, the number two...
Read moreThe End of the Beginning
Even more powerful than Rupert Murdoch… The closing of the 150-year old Rocky Mountain News was certainly a troubling harbinger of where print is headed. Now word is out that The New York Times is threatening to close The...
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