A Case for a “King of News”?
Capable of seeing all sides of an argument… For many years now, I have been a resident of two countries, the USA and the UK. That ‘duality’ has taught me to look at the world from several perspectives at...
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“see what else is on…” For most of our existence, we have lived in a world without images. We are today so inundated by them, from TV to movies to magazines to billboards that we forget that all this...
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the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria… the MGM version… This morning we had a meeting with the head of one of the largest newspaper groups in the world, based in the UK. We were early…(which I think...
Read moreHillary, your web videos suck!
…anacin…anacin….anacin…… His name was Rosser Reeves and he changed the world. You may never have heard of him, but you should have. He created, to a large, extent, the world we live in today.
Read moreThis Is What Journalism Has Become….
June 8, 1972. Nick Ut, (Huynh Cong Ut), captures this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village...
Read moreWhere Are We Going?
“….are we there yet?…..” In the first half of the 20th Century, we had an economy that was based on manufacturing stuff. That is, the bulk of the economy was based on making physical, tangible things, like bricks, or...
Read moreThe Peasants Are Revolting!
…. storming the CBS Building….. The printing press unleashed a revolution unforseen by Gutenberg. The ‘people’ were suddenly in control of information. And those who had until then complete power over information did not like this at all. The...
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…for all to see, in black and white… “Yes, there are more producers of video content. That content will continue to grow/explode. But I will not have time or energy to watch more than a few each day. Sorting...
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