Category: Media

  • Demablogs, Iraq and Jamil Hussein

    DEMABLOG: the AP and crowing lefty bloggers will treat this as total vindication. That’s how the game is played: dumb it down to something simple like “Does Jamil Hussein exist?” and ignore the other issues.Horace Walpole managed to coin the word serendipity without apparently breaking sweat. I’ve been scratching my head looking for a word…

  • ITV – lessons from America

    There’s nothing like paying someone else to do your thinking. ITV chairman Michael Grade has apparently decided to get Spectrum in. What’s the betting there’s a job at ITV on offer for whoever can come up with something that sounds like a plan? Buying up social networking sites and having them sign up for big-spending…

  • Media trends 2007

    Deloitte has been generating some coverage with its predictions for media trends in 2007. They reckon user-generated content will become more mainstream. So what did they predict in 2006? The music industry should continue the digital revolution Digitization will continue Blogs will be big My prediction for 2008? Media trends surveys banally restating ‘the bleeding…

  • Don’t email Joel Stein

    Not everything should be interactive … If Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the wall and then all the townsfolk sent him their comments, and he had to write back to all of them and clarify what he meant, some of the theses would have gotten all watered down… The LA Times‘ Joel Stein…