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more about #mediawars more comments → shostakobitch: Couldn't agree with you more. Another example of this is nuclear weapons. Sure a bunch of hippies thought they might "explode" and kill us all but n... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: When can we have the chip implant to put bright shiny images directly into our brains? And jetpacks? #television more » Seeräuber Jenny: "The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and s... more » manchops: This whole thing is reminding me of Carrie Prejean attempting to walk off Larry King Live. Why do right wing freak-a-zoids always have to sit and whin... more » MrInBetween: From the report: "What types of programs might be best suited for studio presentation? For remote presentation? Would there be enough interest in such... more » TedSez: Back then, TV was "free" as long as you bought the equipment and watched the advertisements. Today, most TV channels and the Internet require hefty ac... more » TheBusinessGuy: That's what happens when I outsource my editing to the Gainesville Sun. Ya got me, Mohaski! Sorry for the double post, too. more » flugennock: POINT 1: The new medium could rot people's brains and erode cultural standards: Let's Make A Deal. Happy Days. The Cosby Show. Mad About You. Friend... more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Did that 1945 pamphlet ask the question "How much bukkake footage is too much bukkake footage?"? #television more » TheBusinessGuy: The same stuff was said about radio before that, and the movies before that. I'm sure Guttenberg had to put up with naysayers who mourned the loss of... more » son of spam: George Pataki is alive and well and living in Rupert Murdoch's basement. #newscorp more » Arken: News Corp. has a core audience that cares about it. That core audience is mostly older people who are less tech-savvy in the first place and thus less... more » DennyCrane: When a consumer enters a query into Google (and just about any other search engine), they can get hundreds of results. If a News Corp site isn't part ... more » random_play: The Laugh is back! #marissamayer more » jackbarber: This is the first time I've ever been on Marissa Mayer's side about anything. And I share her flabbergastery. I'd read about this earlier today and t... more » -
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Everything Bad About the Web Was Once Said About Television
This 1945 pamphlet on the "Future of Television" is awesome. But who would have thought we'd be having the same tired discussion 65 years later? The table of contents is a template for every contemporary new media debate: More » -
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Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More » -
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Marissa Mayer, Temptress of Google
It was a shocking clash of old and new media culture at a San Francisco Web summit, and Business Insider captured it on video: The editor of the Wall Street Journal calling a Google executive a media pimp. More » -
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California Declares War on the Media
The battle between celebrity media and California has been a winking-frenemy-like affair since ancient times. But suddenly the gloves are off and the state seems hell bent on taking a sledgehammer to the skull of the Hollywood Press. More » -
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Twitter CEO's Mockery: We 'Were Laughing at Those Media Guys'
Twitter's revenues will be just $4 million this year, according to a new Wired feature story. But that's not going to crimp its co-founder's swagger: Evan Williams knows Twitter will be huge, and has words for anyone who says otherwise. More » -
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Vice vs. Street Carnage: Hipster Media's Battle Produces Draconian Non-Competes
Wow. We knew VICE sold out and went corporate, but this is some Conde Nast-y shit. Looks like Vice holds writers to non-competes, barring them from having anything to do with departed VICE founder Gavin McInnes' site, Street Carnage.
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#sexism
Erin Andrews: 'Dirty Girl' With Great 'Gams'
When ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was victimized by a peeping sex perv, the New York Post defended her by running the sexxxy perv pictures. ESPN then banned Post reporters from their channel. But the Post is not done sympathizing—sexxxily! More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
You're In the Googleplex Now
After a yearlong Army deployment to Iraq, how does it feel to enter Google's bubble of notoriously cushy working conditions, stateside? It's as disorienting as you might think, reports public affairs specialist Dale Sweetnam, now embedded with Google. More » -
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Bill O'Reilly Flexes His Independence
On Monday night, in response to a Times report alleging that Fox and NBC had brokered a deal to end his feud with Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann lashed out at the world. Tonight it was O'Reilly's turn to rebel. More » -
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Remembering the Time When Radio Was Accused of Being The Death of Journalism
So you know how the newspaper industry has long been whining incessantly about the internet killing journalism? Well, this isn't the first time they've made such claims! They went nuts during the 1920s and 1930s over the threat from radio. More » -
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Online News Theft a Truly Teeny-Tiny Problem
The Wall Street Journal is up in arms about it; the Associated Press is building a robot army to fight it. But it turns out online news piracy is at most a $250 million-per-year problem. Just how small is that? More » -
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AP to Finally Invent Indexing of Text on Internet
This is great: The Associated Press is going to set up a "news registry," so it can finally tell where its text content is, on the internet. What a fresh concept! But the revolution doesn't end there. More » -
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Bonnie Fuller Hired Into Murderer's Row of Hollywood
Well, Jay Penske is assembling quite a stable at his burgeoning online media company; first he bought Nikki Finke, Winchellian Hollywood blogger, now he's bringing on Bonnie Fuller, the notorious diva celeb-mag editor. Watch for sparks. More » -
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YouTube's Changing of the Guard
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has quietly left his baby behind, moving to a different Google division. Fellow co-founder Chad Hurley might leave too, PaidContent writes. Now comes a more Hollywood future for the video-sharing site. More » -
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Condé Nast's Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud
Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, the book from Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More » -
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Flacks Advise Feuding Times To Get Deeper Into Mud
The New York Times has, in recent months, started punching back at its critics, rather than maintaining the usual dignified silence. But with letters and memos, which, let's face it, are for wusses, right? More » -
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WSJ Scolds 'Confused' Simpletons at Times
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are now in a full-blown pissing match over circulation. The name calling must be more comfortable for the newspapers than grappling with their real problems. More » -
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NYT Slams WSJ Editor's 'Strange Analysis'
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson sent out a staff memo this week crowing about beating the NYT in circulation growth. Now the NYT strikes back with its own sternly-worded response. This is catty war! More »
