Media Frets About Its Own Future at SXSWi 2010
Ink-stained wretches, it's not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).
Sexism Sells! But Is Knowing That Supposed To Make It Less Offensive?
“A mad reader is an engaged reader!” This we know. Everyone who has ever worked in media time-out-of-mind knows this. The blogosphere is built on this model. Cable News increasingly so. Still, knowing that didn’t stop me from being angry; angrier still that it had worked. And it does work. But why does it...
Rush Limbaugh Discovers Gawker The ‘Leftist Gay Gossip Site’
Actually it gets better. Turns out Rush Limbaugh only has nice things to say about Hamilton Nolan's recent post 'America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day.' And then he reads it. Behold.
Condéfreude: Or, Why Do Other Media Love Ragging On Condé Nast?
Everyone who's paying attention knows that Condé Nast is in trouble. But given how little substantiation there has been as to the scope of that trouble, there's been quite a lot of writing about it, often taking on tut-tutting moralistic tones. Why do media watchers so love to pile on Condé?
MSM Plays Catch-Up With Gawker
Two days ago Gawker's Hamilton Nolan got his hands on a leaked email from the executive VP of PR giant Burson-Marsteller to it staff suggesting they use Mark Penn's (yes that Mark Penn) latest column on the subject of "glamorous camping" as a way to attract new clients in that industry. ...
