Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Books, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics on Nov 15th, 2007
Judith Regan, one of the most successful publishers and editors in the book business, saw her career come to an ignominious end late last year after a controversy erupted about her plan to publish a peculiar memoir by O.J. Simpson, If I Did It, as well as an erotically-charged novelization of Mickey Mantle’s life. […]
Conservatives and liberals don’t just differ on political candidates. They prefer different TV shows, movies and videogames, according to a new survey by the Zogby Institute. USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center commissioned the study, and its director, Marty Kaplan, blogged about it at Huffington Post, concluding
(W)hen it comes to entertainment, conservatives are way more […]
Posted in Internet, Labor, Media, Technology on Nov 13th, 2007
Legendary tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen explains that the Silicon Valley way of creating businesses might be what its polar opposite, the entertainment industry, might turn into as a result of the WGA strike; and of the underlying issue behind the strike, the convergence of scripted movie and TV entertainment with the Internet.
The whole, very long […]
Warner Music Group was trading at $27 per share a year ago. Since then, it’s been all slide, until Friday, when it closed at $8.08, after having scraped $7.25. Fox News’ Roger Friedman said Friday the stock had “collapsed,” a colorful description that got picked up all over the Internet.
What’s wrong with Warner […]
On the last day before the Writers Guild of America went on strike, two of the most powerful entertainment executives offered a deal through a back channel. If the WGA stopped demanding DVD residuals, the producers would improve the residual formula applied to Internet downloads of movies and TV shows, according to Nikke Finke’s […]
Posted in Internet, Labor, Media, Professional Services on Nov 6th, 2007
The Writers Guild of America’s spokespersons are “potentially hurting their cause by being so slow to explain their side to the media,” according to Daily Variety, the showbiz trade publication.
The writers are “in danger of getting swift-boated,” the unsigned essay states — alluding to 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry’s refusal to defend himself against […]
I loved “Mad Men” (see below), but according to Variety, today’s advertising executives had problems with the show.
To ad execs on the creative side, it’s the portrayal of the business that rankles. Case in point: Don Draper (Jon Hamm) coming up with the 11th-hour “It’s toasted” slogan for Lucky Strike, which kept the account at […]
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