adrian monck

Author: Adrian Monck

  • TV and the presidency: Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon

    From Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968 – a young Roger Ailes, formerly exec producer of the Mike Douglas Show, has been hired to produce ten live one-hour programmes featuring Richard Nixon. Nixon met the 28-year old Ailes before he appeared on the Douglas show. “It’s a shame a man has to use…

  • The Simpsons on the future of newspapers

    The Simpsons on the future of newspapers (HT: Mark Hamilton).

  • Honesty in factual entertainment

    Isn’t it time for the tricks – I don’t know what else you’d call them – of factual entertainment to be made as transparent in the UK as in the US? The Guardian’s media diary notes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: We would have liked the Granada America show even more had it not been…

  • Learning about the future of media from your kids

    Fred Wilson, affable tech venture capitalist and A-list blogger gives an anecdotal insight into media prospects based on the tastes of his kids (one of whom blogs too). I try, but it’s hard not to like Wilson. Here are his observations: 1) When they walk into a DVD store, they rarely walk out with a…