In Seattle for a couple of days, doing some reporting for some upcoming columns, and have been running around too much to be too active in this blog.
But want to pass along this: If you are remotely interested in the images that underpin much of today's popular and media culture, by all means check out Lauren Collins’ excellent piece in the New Yorker about Pascal Dangin, who’s apparently the fashion and ad world’s top photo retoucher.
Minneapolis Star Tribune owners Avista Capital Partners knock down this New York Post report that the paper's bankruptcy pends imminently. Sort of.
Emphasis added to amplify the not-so-subtext:
There are (still) people within Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s orbit that still think that a post-mayoral bid for the New York Times would be a worthy next-act for the Mayor, who will be term-limited out of his job at the end of next year. This, even though Bloomberg has been reasonably emphatic about what he thinks about the idea.
As I write in this week’s column, this is a very pretty notion: here comes the benevolent billionaire to ‘save’ the Times from the vicissitudes of the market and Murdoch. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and there are very strong arguments against this happening.
But a longtime reader floats a whole ‘nother notion in a series of emails:
I was fact-checking an upcoming column's potential reference to an old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups tagline, and happened upon this delightful relic of '80's videogame culture at YouTube.
Continue reading "Back When Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Boldly Crossed The Videogame Frontier"
How likely is it that Miley will be on the cover of the next OK! or People mag, telling “her side of the story”? With a coverline that advertises something along the lines of “How Miley Is Coping”?
Continue reading "Those Miley Cyrus Photos: The Upcoming Damage Control Operation"
Dutch designer Greetje van Tiem has an intriguing idea. There must be a Murdoch joke in here somewhere. (Hat tip: alert reader and emailer Dave Smith)...
Slate’s Troy Patterson spent some quality time recently with CBS News’ slate of programs, and, from the sounds of it, it damn near made him lose his mind:...
. . . which the world heard about yesterday, will be former Showtime exec Mark Greenberg, writes my colleague Tom Lowry, in a nice bit of breaking news you...
“Let’s get the murder thing out of the way,” said Felix Dennis, founder of Maxim and many other magazines big and small, by way of greeting a crowd of journalism...
Got a few emails about this speech given yesterday at the National Association of Broadcasters conference by NAB President-CEO David Rehr, in particular this part:...
An unnamed source is buried deep in the big Wall Street Journal piece today, the one detailing some backroom manuevers in the whole Google/News Corp/AOL/Microsoft group-grope-cum-competition for Yahoo. Said source...
The media and marketing world continues to shapeshift on a near-daily basis, as new forms arise and old assumptions erode. Where is it all going? No one knows, least of all Media Columnist Jon Fine. But on this blog he promises ample helpings of scoop, provocation, sharp analysis and (we hope) wit as he tracks and annotates this constantly changing terrain.
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