by The Wordyeti | Mar 13, 2006 | journalism
Cue the elegies and weeping. Knight-Ridder has been sold to McClatchy, Tony Ridder’s dangling from the rafters like the ill-fated mook on the Sopranos last night, and we’re feeling so sad. The phrase that keeps cropping up in all the stories has got to be...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 9, 2006 | journalism
…and no, this is not just another rambling screed about how the NSA domestic spying program is TEOTWAWKI. Although that’s always fun. No, this is about the fumbling attempts to try to figure out how to deliver the news/information/entertainment (and they...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 24, 2006 | advertising, journalism
I forgot to include this quote about when and especially WHY it was that companies had to start manipulating us all through advertising, rather than just trusting that we would go out and figure out which products were better, and buy them. It seems so strange in our...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 24, 2006 | journalism, television
OK, most of the time I’m pretty strongly skeptical of conspiracy-theory nuttiness. Working in close proximity to actual Men in Black, I have observed that most of them are lucky if they can all agree on where to get the morning donuts. This is not to say...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 13, 2006 | journalism
And no, it’s not a U.S. corporation – although there probably are some corporations making smart, forward-thinking moves that are paying off in huge increases in traffic, the establishment of something cool that brings in the young audience and that works...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 9, 2006 | journalism
And here’s the exciting conclusion to the tale of my encounter with genial old glad-hander Ronald Reagan. I’ve taken heat since then from people who bring up all the crap that got pulled under Ronnie, who felt that I shouldn’t have in any way...
