From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Off topic: the language of advertising

May 21, 2009

The Ideas­Broth­ers blog has uncovered a novel writ­ten by an advert­ising plan­ner. In a pent­house apart­ment on the right side of town, a 28‐54 year old man called Dan tried to con­trol his breath­ing. Someone or some­thing was mov­ing about down­stairs. He listened intently. There it was again. In the inky dark, the sound had real cut‐through com­pared to […]

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My new job…and yours?

May 20, 2009

I am delighted and — yes, excited — to announce that I’ll be join­ing the World Eco­nomic Forum as Man­aging Dir­ector and Head of Com­mu­nic­a­tions from August. [More here.] In the new role I’ll be remov­ing my com­ment­ary hat and trav­el­ling a lot more, so the blog will prob­ably fall into abey­ance — it’s been suffering […]

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Obama: justifying a news media bailout?

May 11, 2009

If you wondered about the US gov­ern­ment and the news media, and the pos­sib­il­ity — the hint, flicker, barest glim­mer — of some kind of bail­out, then listen to the last few humour­less minutes of Barack Obama’s speech to the White House press corps (it’s from 2’50″ in on the clip below). Is he merely play­ing to the gal­lery? Or is he provid­ing the intel­lec­tual jus­ti­fic­a­tion for future action? Or am I simply indul­ging my journ­al­istic pas­sion for over-interpretation?

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