This week, in the ever-tired, ultra-binary "battle" between old-media bona fides and new-media triumphalism: --TMZ.com broke the news about Michael Jackson’s death. --Columbia S.C.’s daily newspaper The State did an...
Many media types routinely namecheck The Economist as a favorite magazine. I am not among them. Yes, The Economist is global and comprehensive and all that, but more often than...
Earlier this month, I expressed some puzzlement over the new GM “revivention’ ad campaign (and accompanying Web site). I was having a hard time deciding whether or not they ads...
A few hours ago I interviewed IAC Chairman-CEO Barry Diller onstage at the Advertising 2.0 conference, During said interview, he came out much more strongly in favor of paid content...
In the shoulda-done-this-earlier department: I'm interviewing IAC Chairman and CEO Barry Diller onstage tomorrow at the Advertising 2.0 conference in Manhattan. There's no set agenda for our discussion, but, as...
Finding itself in deeply strange terrain—a national icon in bankruptcy, owned in large measure by you and me and a few hundred million other American citizens—General Motors has started running...
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