Tag Archives: Media

Frank Rich finds that the American public’s attention span, sense of quality and critical independence are longer and stronger than the entertainment industry gives it credit for: Here’s what’s wrong with kids in the digital age. They live in front of their TV and PC screens. They steal music online. …

Now basically I like Mellonhead, and I respect him for the tenacity to stick it out in the face of some poor early-career marking decisions made by his labels, himself, or a combination of the two (the transition from “Cougar” back to “Mellencamp” was long and painful). He has turned …

Let it never be said that our Blogcritics aren’t newsworthy. Ryan Irelan was featured in the NY Times yesterday – how cool is that? The compulsion to get noticed by some of the big fish in the blogging world is tempting for many, however, because it can lead to significant …

FCC’s monkey spanked: The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to overturn parts of a Federal Communications Commission decision freeing media companies from decades-old ownership limits and allowing them to buy more outlets and merge in new ways. The proposal … would roll back changes that allowed individual companies to own …

Forbes says if you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em: Once seemingly moribund, UHF-giant Paxson Communications has seen its stock nearly triple, from $2.10 in late March to a recent $6.25. Behind the sharp price increase: the Federal Communications Commission’s revamped media ownership rules, says Ronald Young, an analyst with Evergreen …

Nothing in this libertarian old-time religion sermon from the Cato Institute about the effects of media consolidation as let loose by the last media buying frenzy, nothing about the finite resources PUBLICLY owned and the responsibility for serving the public good, nothing about the disappearance of localism other than to …

New AOL radio ad deal erases the line between editorial and advertising: A $15 million advertising and promotional deal between Viacom’s Infinity Broadcasting Corp. and struggling online service America Online is raising hackles as some radio staffers perceive a breach of the separation between editorial and advertising content. The deal, …

A few weeks before the FCC media ownership vote, William Safire inveighed against loosening the ownership restrictions. He’s still at it: John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, was also startled by the public reaction to the Floodgate scandal: “750,000 people sent messages to the F.C.C.,” McCain tells me. …

The megalomania continues – Microsoft in Wired: Microsoft has two visions for the future of digital media: unlimited choice for consumers, and unlimited control for producers. One thing’s for sure, it’s unlimited opportunity for Redmond. ….These two homes represent two futures. The first is what consumers want: digital media their …

The Golden Arches tweaking slogan: McDonald’s will launch a new ad campaign that is different, but not too different from the old campaign, and which continues to tap a universal theme: love. As with the old campaign, words like unsaturated fat and cholesterol will generally be avoided. The new theme …