What You Don’t Get To See
As I have often mentioned, we spend our time split between Europe and the US. As a result, we get the interesting insight of seeing the same event as viewed by two totally different media machines. While we in...
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He ‘got’ the new media…. On Friday, I was interviewed by Brian Lamb for Q&A on C-Span. (Sunday nights at 8pm) The interview was a grueling 57 minutes without commerical breaks, and unedited. Lamb threw me a few questions...
Read moreAmerica Loves A Good Story
So cute…. later, it will eat you. I am watching the Today Show this morning from the Embassy Suites (don’t ask) in Chevy Chase, Md. The economy would seem to be melting down and Wall Street is dissolving, but...
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 moreAmusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman 1931-2003 Every once in a while you read a book that changes your life. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman was such a book for me. Although I read it in 1985, it was a book...
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 moreHOW MORGAN FREEMAN MADE BARAK OBAMA POSSIBLE
A few years ago, I read a fascinating book by Neil Gabler entitled “An Empire of Their Own, How The Jews Invented Hollywood” The Hollywood Studios were founded by 7 Jews, all of whom ironically came from a 50...
Read moreDebatable, part 2
Tonight at 7PM…. Lincoln v. Douglass. Tune in…. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for the Senate from Illinois, and Stephen Douglass, Democratic candidate conducted a series of seven debates across the state of Illinois. In these debates, each...
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