Interactive TV on Channel 4? What Else Is New?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozDUMW5mzE[/youtube] Not even in reruns In 2004, Pat Younge, now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, then head of The Travel Channel in the US and I hatched a scheme to air a new kind of television series. It...
Read moreWhat’s Wrong With Journalism
Secretive and unhelpful. But scientist in Climategate storm STILL gets his job back VS. Climategate scientists cleared of manipulating data on global warming Same story Two different headlines. In fact, two totally different stories. The first headline is from...
Read moreThe BBC Begins to Embrace The Citizen Journalist
Still the best news organization in the world. My friend, Pat Younge, former President of The Travel Channel, now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, sends me link this morning to an article in The Guardian, about The BBC’s...
Read moreHas Journalism Been Voted Off The Island?
Which one writes for The Chicago Tribune? In early December the Federal Trade Commission is going to hold a series of hearings on the collapse of the journalism business. It is good that the federal government is paying attention...
Read moreStorytelling
For $100 million or so they can deliver an hour After a 4-week vacation and a hiatus from both work (for the most part) and the blog, we are back in London and back at work, and now back...
Read moreThe End of the Beginning
Even more powerful than Rupert Murdoch… The closing of the 150-year old Rocky Mountain News was certainly a troubling harbinger of where print is headed. Now word is out that The New York Times is threatening to close The...
Read moreThe Very Best Newspaper in the World
Free online… but I can get the hard copy in NY for $3.50 It is, in my opinion, the best newspaper in the world. It’s insightful, intelligent, in-depth and a great read. Every day. The Guardian, formerly, The Manchester...
Read moreThe Truman Syndrome
I’m voting you off the planet…. In 1969 the first man walked on the moon. In 1972, the last man walked on the moon, and we have not been back since. That’s 36 years. For 36 years the moon...
Read moreThe Power of the Press
Best newspaper in the world? Maybe… Last night we had dinner with our friend Gary Younge. He is a columnist for The Guardian, the British newspaper. A paper many believe to be among the world’s best. Gary noted that...
Read moreNBC Green is Universal is Crap
While NBC preaches Green and urges you to cut back, they burn the midnight oil. I have just finished reading James Lovelock’s The Revenge of Gaia. Lovelock is the British scientist who formulated the Gaia Theory almost 40 years...
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