Tim Russert’s death hurts.
There’s heartbreak for his son, wife and father.
There’s sadness for NBC colleagues in a Washington D.C. news bureau covering a historial presidential election.
There’s a void for the 4 million viewers who let him into their homes Sunday mornings with Meet the Press, the program he transformed over a 17-year run.
Seventeen years in [...]
News of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain tumor today made me think of one thing: Livestrong.
Marketing a product or cause around the subject of cancer is difficult.
But the bright color yellow, the inspirational wrist bands (tens of millions worldwide), and the broad support of family and friends elevated cancer survivor and 7-time Tour de France champion [...]
ABC News has empowered an online community of election watchers and media critics. I’m not sure of the record for most comments on a blog (or web news posting). But ABC’s got to be rising up the list.
Imagine getting this kind of feedback in just over 24 hours. There were 19,000+ comments as of 10 [...]
This is a great follow story to the hoopla over Sen. Barack Obama’s “bitter” comment made during a “private” San Francisco meeting with donors. A 61-year-old blogger — and Obama supporter — posted the remark, and things quickly spun up.
Just a few years ago, the remark may have been passed among a few people in [...]
Q: Why would a major publishing house print a memoir without checking basic facts?
A: Intense competition to sell books.
News this week of the bogus biography of a woman who claimed to have run drugs for a Los Angeles gang as a kid is yet another reminder to publishers that non-fiction must be vetted and fact-checked. Magazines work to do it. Newspapers work [...]
While a segment that aired last night on ABC’s 20/20 (also on the ABC News website) doesn’t establish “hard evidence” that an exhibits company has broken any laws, it raises questions about the line between scientific research and entertainment.
Have you seen the Bodies: The Exhibition in San Diego, New York City, Seattle, Washington D.C., Atlanta or Amsterdam? A Goldman Sachs piece of news raised the stock [...]
Without a doubt, political campaign strategist is one of the most difficult brand manager jobs.
For starters, your product must talk (advertise) constantly to its target audience, both directly (rallies) and through a filter (news media). Your product changes packaging (clothes) daily.
And it’s got a mind of its own.
Then, there’s the marketing budget. The more your [...]
Five stories in the Sunday newspapers that caught my eye.
Apple a Day (Gartner predicts more Apple computer market share, more SaaS and more business travelers leaving laptops in the office)
Global IPO’s hit 50 month low (lowest level since November 2004)
Yahoo Deal is Big, but is it the Next Big Thing? (sobering analysis with opinions of [...]
Here are a few interesting clips from the Sunday (and weekend) newspapers.
Freed from the Page, but a Book Nontheless. Popularity of books and the Amazon Kindle.
The stock market for songwriters. Fans buy shares to fund bands’ album projects.
Untimely end deals wildcard to movie’s Joker-based viral campaign. What’s next for elaborate online build-up of “Dark Knight”?
BMW sells more China-made vehicles. Sales up [...]
As world financial markets gyrate, we’re witnessing the ultimate viral campaign of fear. Institutional investors. Politicians. The little guy. All talking about about the economy. With irrational exuberence long since past, imagine what opportunities lie ahead for those who navigate fearlessly.
Yesterday, a colleague who worked on Wall Street in the early part of his career shared with me that the [...]
