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The democratic medium…
From Tom Abate: Summarizing a report from the Internet Advertising Bureau in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers, MediaPost writes: “Internet ad spending remained concentrated among the top 10 sellers online, which accounted for 70 percent of all money spent. Ninety-one percent of all ad dollars online were spent with publishers in the top 50… Search (41%), banners/display…
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The Wyatt Report
The Wyatt Report raises some damning issues. For my money, these are the three shockers: 1. The Palace being allowed sneak preview access by RDF – effectively giving participants the opportunity to exert editorial control. If that’s how the Queen’s Castle got made, we should know. …at the end of June RDF had shown the…
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Can journalists make people care?
In one of the great noir cinematic moments, Orson Welles takes Joseph Cotten for a ride on Vienna’s Riesenrad. Welles is Harry Lime, a war-profiteer, killing sick kids by selling dodgy penicillin to hospitals. Cotten asks if he’s ever seen any of his victims. As the two men look down on the crowd from the…
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The eternal brain drain…
Alan Mutter‘s Brain Drain post, is a reminder of how political many old media organizations are: young net natives, for the most part, rank too low in the organizations that employ them to be invited to the pivotal discussions determining the strategic initiatives that could help their employers sustain their franchises. …Members of the wired…