Star Ledger Lives!
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1318322&dest=-1] The Star Ledger, New Jersey’s biggest newspaper seemed, for a while, to be in trouble. All newspapers are in trouble today, but parent Conde Nast was threatening to sell the paper unless the unions took a number...
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[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj41zkUuGCc&hl=en&fs=1] Pat Lafferty is an old marine. He’s also Chief Creative Officer at The Travel Channel. Pat Younge, President and GM for the Travel Channel has instructed that all 250 employees of the Channel take the 4-day TCA Bootcamp...
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 moreReport from MediaOn
não falo português Last night I gave the keynote address to open MediaOn 2008 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The conference was sponsored by Itau Cultural. It’s a gathering of broadcasters, newspapers and online journalists from all across Latin America....
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 moreVermont in the News
Marselis Parsons, News Director and Anchor for WCAX TV. Can we talk? Labor Day in Vermont is tough. Rather than fly back to NY, we spent the day at the Champlaign State Fair, just outside of Burlington, Besides the...
Read moreListening To The Technology
What is it saying? Andy Grove, former Chairman and co-founder of Intel said, ‘listen to the technology. The technology wil tell you what to do” We are in an industry created by and dictated by technology. As the technology...
Read moreMy First Job in TV
No God but The God I got an email this morning from Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Professor of Safavid history at The University of Minnesota. Let’s hear it for the web. I have not seen Rosemary Stanfield since 1980, when I...
Read moreMen At Work
Caution Cameragod writes to us from New Zealand noting: Ok so tell two men they each have to race dig a road. One gets a 10 year but still working fine old bulldozer and the other a brand new...
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