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Breaking Bad vs. The Great Gatsby

Posted on May 19th, 2013 Written on michael's blog

We went to see The Great Gatsby last night. Hated it. Hated… hated… hated… OK. Hated. Talking about it to Lisa over dinner after the movie (she rather liked it, I think), she asked why I hated it so much. Aside from all the gratuitous 3D ‘special effects’, my biggest problem was the simplicity of the characters; their two-dimensional characters (ironic in a 3D movie). I said, “compare it to Breaking Bad. In Breaki

Tags : Breaking , Bad , The , Great , Gatsby , Mad , Men

The .01% Solution

Posted on May 15th, 2013 Written on michael's blog

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A. J. Liebling (1904 – 1963) The world of the media used to be a rich man’s playground. It cost a lot of money to buy a television network, or a magazine, or a newspaper. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in, 60 years. - Charles Foster Kane But that was the only way to get your message, or your product, in front of millio

Tags : 01 , Solution , Michelle , Phan , AJ , Liebling

Scott Pelley Is No Fred Friendly

Posted on May 12th, 2013 Written on michael's blog

Scott Pelley (CBS) accepts the Fred Friendly Journalism Award... Fred Friendly was a friend of mine. He was also my teacher at Columbia University, and later my professional mentor. He launched my career in television and media. So it was with a great deal of interest that I watched as Scott Pelley, the anchor at The CBS Evening News accepted the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award. As Scott gave his speech, it became increasingly clear to me that he had

Tags : Scott , Pelley , Fred , Friendly

The Alzheimer's Syndrome

Posted on May 8th, 2013 Written on michael's blog

Have we met before??? There’s an old joke: The good thing about Alzheimer’s? You always meet new people. What does this have to do with media on the web? Everything, I think. Up until now, we have always lived in a linear world of very limited shelf-space. That is, there were a limited number of TV or cable channels, a limited number of hours of broadcasting. In the world of music, there was only so much shelf space at Tower Records. In the

Tags : Alzheimer , s , Gilligan , s , Island , Tower , Records , Shelf , Space

What's a Library?

Posted on May 7th, 2013 Written on michael's blog

Library under construction - along with a 50 story hotel and condo.... I live across the street from a library... or at least what used to be a library. The Donnell Library on West 53rd Street. Today, it is a big hole in the ground. There is going to be a 50-story condominium and Baccarat Hotel where the Donnell Library used to be. Frankly, I will not miss the library. Even though I lived right across the street from it for many years, I never went insi

Tags : LIbrary , Donnell , NY , Times , Ray , Bradbury

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