Back in the glory days of the daily newspaper getting a scoop meant beating the competition by half-a-day or possibly by a full day. With newspaper boys screaming, “Extra!” on every corner, a good scoop meant thousands of additional newspaper sales. Thus, being first with a story had a huge bottom-line impact. Back in...
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Gotta lead with the good stuff. Crank this one to 11. In re: McCrystal. A couple of things that should pop right out as the nut graphs of this whole affair but that (typically) have been totally buried by the media in the whole scandaliciousness frenzy surrounding the Rolling Stone article by , Michael...
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This is the latest in an ongoing series entitled, “Everything You Think You Know (ETYTYK) about ‘X’ is Wrong,” designed to illustrate just how much technology and the internet have changed key industries (the X). It is also about how we as consumers and most especially how the industries themselves are mostly failing in...
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post below is a chart showing Fox News viewership alongside GOP approval (as measured by CBS/NYT polling). Per Gawker’s post: But while cable news is niche, politics is mass. The chart above shows GOP party approval in as reported by New York Times/CBS in national polls going back to...
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