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 moreObama – Our First Reality Show President
Can he make it to the final? “You are what you eat”, or more properly, ‘tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’ said the 18th Century French epicure Brillant-Savarin. In France, eating was...
Read moreWhen It Comes To New Media – Obama Does Not ‘Get’ It
small change A very long time ago, Lisa and I were cajoled into attending a Hillary Clinton fundraising dinner. It was at someone’s house and it ‘only’ cost us $10,000 to ‘get to meet’ Hillary and Bill – for...
Read moreHow The Other Half Lives
This just in… Sent by my friend Jim Long on his iPhone. Jim is a professional cameraman with NBC News. He is in Asia with Obama on the White House press corps. All of this stuff, all of it,...
Read moreObama 1, Media 0
It worked for him…. Question: What has Barack Obama got that most journalists don’t? Answer: A job. Obama and his team understood how to use the web to build a massive online ‘affinity group’ to both raise money and...
Read moreA Most Demanding Job!
We are currently in St. Kitts and Nevis, where we have been hired as media consultants to the government.
Read moreThe Hamas Show
The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed.
Read moreHello Mrs. Chips
Good Morning Brazil… This morning, we wake up in the almost incomprehensible Sao Paolo. With a population of nearly 20 million people, covering an area of 3,108 square miles, it is the largest city in the world. (by some...
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...
Read moreWhat Local News Can Learn from Obama
He rates well in a good demo… Presidential primaries are a lot like television shows. You roll out your pilots, and the ones that rate get commissioned. The ones that don’t rate die. The Chris Dodd Show, for example,...
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