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11/10/09
(Someone asked his dad about Ghostbusters3, but that was about it. He was very much the proud papa.)
Clooney has never been more likeable. #jasonreitman
11/10/09
At least no one asked him what kind of tree he would be, although I do wonder what he'd LIKE to be asked that he's never been asked. #jasonreitman
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directors/actors making horrible art like transformers and g.i. joe deserve the asinine questions because they insist on shitting on the intelligence of millions.
there should just be one press conference where thirty questions are chosen from all the media for the stars to answer. and then that is broadcast everywhere. #jasonreitman
11/10/09
Respectable outlets usually get one-on-one time with the sources, which is in theory more conducive to actual dialogue. Although if the PR hawks are in attendance, it's probably still an absurd dance.
11/10/09
It's definitely still an absurd dance, though. Points on that, for sure. #jasonreitman
11/10/09
I just distinctly remember participating in some of these cattle-call junkets for my school paper, and it was.. traumatic.
Then! There are the so-called hybrid-junkets, where the studio or whatever hosts a cocktail party at the Bel Air Hotel, and a select number of media outlets are invited and gorge on Chardonnay and hob-nob cordially, ie, in a non-structured environment, with the principals. Those ones are not as brutal because everyone gets a bit tipsy.. #jasonreitman
10/15/09
What year is it in anyone's head where a band as musically irrelevant as KISS is still on your radar screen?
Now where's my copy of Molly Hatchett's latest piece of vintage vinyl?
10/14/09
10/14/09
Jesus. Adam Lambert is the least gay thing about this story.
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10/14/09
Each album in the top 3 of last week's chart would have beaten Buble's Oprah-inflated sales. Kiss should consider themselves lucky to be at #2.
10/14/09
I wonder if having the Kisster Potato Heads for sale alongside the albums cut into their margins? I know which one I'd rather own...
10/14/09
Oprah also helped Journey out last week -- they were on her show Tuesday, and their (also Wal-Mart-only) album had a sales increase of 680.7% -- although not as much as she boosted Buble.
Are people really rooting for Kiss in all this? I mean, the only reason to do so is because you know that they're going to keep putting out albums until they actually hit No. 1. Maybe next time they can do a covers album of all the songs Gene Simmons likes to make sweet, illicitly videotaped love to...
10/14/09
Wow.
It was 500,000 just as little as 3 years ago.
3 years before that it was in the 1,000,000 range.
Etc, etc, etc...
Who says music isn't dying?
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10/14/09
I worked in music. I was also a musician before that. There are less people buying new albums today then there has ever been for decades. There are more bands making albums, true, but there is no way to get those bands out to people who are only casually interested in music.
Most people don't have satellite radio. Most people are listening to the same Led Zeppelin tunes on classic rock stations they listened to 20 years ago. Maybe there's some new exposure on the pop channels, but that's ephemeral at best.
Next time you stand in line, ask the person standing in front of you if they've heard of Kasabian. Or We Are Scientists. Or even The Raconteurs. The White Stripes were the last non-pop band to really enter the public's consciousness, and even then Jack White can't repeat it.
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I would totally call in sick for that.
09/27/09
Will it regain the heights of previous decades? No, probably not. So what? It will still become a successful industry again. Just a smaller one than it used to be.
This cheerleading and hyping the troubles of newspapers from so-called "new media" types is tiresome and irritating. Give it a rest. The Web doesn't "win" if newspapers "die," so stop trying so hard to convince everyone that's gonna happen.
Instead, recognize that most of the creative professionals in that industry are similar to those in your industry - writers, editors and artists. You all rise and fall together. Stop sniping at your "old media' brethren and working together to make life better for creative professionals across all media for a change.
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09/27/09
"Ink on paper" is not their business. Their business is producing and selling news. The news product the produces is distributed through more than one channel. "Ink on paper" is just one channel (declining). The web is another one (growing).
I read the New York Times and the Washington Post regularly, and have not touched any "ink on paper" associated with those two "papers" in years. I read them both on the Web.
The key, of course, is how they can make more money through the Web channel. They'll figure something out.
09/27/09
Put most of your stuff behind a paywall and charge for it, then. Then it won't matter how many other sites link to it -- people who click the links will still have to pay to read it.
If you can't sell the stuff behind a paywall, too bad. dump it. Stick to the stuff people are willing to pay for. Simple.