This Is How It Starts
Hitler arrives at Nuremberg for rally 1933 – another very popular orator Normally I don’t write about politics here. But not today. I recently posted a note to Hoda Kotb from the Today Show. She had an item on...
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Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer…. (25) New technologies carry enormous power with them. Those who grasp what the new technologies mean, as opposed to applying them to old ways of working, will own the future. What we are...
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The first media mogul… Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni understood mass media. While he was still an exile in Paris he began to smuggle audio casettes into the Shah’s Iran. On the tapes, which became wildly popular, he cast the Shah...
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Must See TV…. As with the arrival of the Internet, the arrival of radio in the 1920s shook up the world. The new medium was extraordinarly powerful. Now, for the first time in human history, one voice could be...
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