How Barack Obama Could Win An Emmy – And Maybe Get Re-Elected
It was called ‘television’. It was like Youtube except you only had 5 channels – hard to believe! In 1960, John F. Kennedy, a one-term senator from Massachussets ran against Richard Nixon, the Vice President of the US for...
Read moreBritain Plunges Headlong Into 1960
Who looked better? Fifty years ago, politics in the US changed forever. Nixon and Kennedy debated live on TV. Television was then a relatively new medium, but by 1960 it had penetrated most American households and most American lives. ...
Read moreChris Brown, Rhianna….and Richard Nixon
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4SD6oBvbKY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjonbernstein.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F21%2Fwhat-chris-browns-youtube-apology-tells-us-about-new-media%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] who needs TV? When 19 year old R&B singer Chris Brown was accused of beating his girlfriend Rhianna, he didn’t go on 60-Minutes looking for contrition. Bill Clinton and Hillary might have taken a chance with Mike Wallace...
Read moreThere’s Something Happening Here…
Obama before 84,000 fans in Denver…. New technologies demand new ideas. Really radical new ideas. The biggest mistake people can make is to try and jam new technologies into old business models. Newspapers, for example, are in serious, serious...
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