Found in stuff I'm going through.
Valleywag Understands How Content Works
Feb 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Valleywag highlights the new Time cover and makes the most excellent observation about how self-important the media is (see How Not to Save Newspapers). The problem with micropayments is not technology. It's that consumers are fundamentally uninterested in paying per article. Isaacson dismisses the problem of "mental transaction costs," but it's quite real. It's almost [...]
Fox News, The Onion, Whatever
Sep 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Pretty much all main stream news lacks substance. However, when a story could have been published by Fox News or The Onion, it's time to make fun. Fox News: Couple's Verdict on iPhone: It's a Split Decision FOXNews.com reporter Courtney Friel and her husband, WWOR-TV reporter Carter Evans, picked up a pair of Apple iPhones [...]
Cardboard Reporter Arrested
Jul 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Am I the only one who thinks this story smacks of a Chinese government cover-up: Reporter held for faking buns report? I don't have any evidence, but it seems awfully convenient that the government now has somebody they can say is making up stories about Chinese product quality. Beijing Television apologized to the public during [...]
How to Redirect Blame
Feb 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
In true MSM fashion today, this article on Bloomberg.com about Iran thumbing its nose at the civilized world contains a little paragraph with a weak attempt to blame it all on the U.S. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have been exacerbated by the Bush administration's allegations of Iranian meddling in Iraq. A U.S. aircraft [...]
You Will Watch Commercials and Like It!
Apr 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
My TiVo is my friend. Not just because it records my shows but because I have control over how I watch TV. The reason DVRs are a media staple is simply because they enable viewers to watch TV their way. Completely ignoring consumer empowerment to profit from the current movement of media companies to micromanagement [...]
Maverick, the New "Liberal"
Mar 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Unrest by Parkway Drive