The Media Drop

Well, I’m off for a few days, heading down South to Charlotte from good old New Jersey for the New Year. Updates will probably not resume until late Saturday or Sunday morning.
Enjoy the holiday, and thanks for reading. It’s been a great first 11 months and 8 days for TMD, and […]

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DMNews.com features an article Thursday by Meg Weaver about magazine publishing, specifically about the lack of growth in the overall readership figures for the last few years - around 14, in fact, according to her stats. I have some very strong throughts on magazines, mostly surrounding monthly publications - which, I believe, are going […]

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Asheville’s Citizen-Times has an article by Tony Kiss about the departure of Scotty Rhodarmer from the airwaves of 570 WWNC, where he had been a fixture in the mornings for forty years, and at the station for a full fifty.

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Over at the Wireless Weblog, Mike Outmesguine details the tsunami relief effort he is involved in, as part of the Southern California Wireless Users Group (SOCALWUG), to bring “wireless equipment and expertise to damaged areas to help reconnect the people.”
If you’re interested in helping out this cause, you can reach Mike at “mo at wifi-toys.com” […]

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For the last day and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out what, if any, warnings were given to the people in the various areas affected by Sunday’s tsunami in southern Asia / India. As it turns out, it doesn’t appear to be just as simple as a lack of “emergency broadcast system” […]

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LGF’s Charles Johnson leads us to an E&P story by Joe Strupp that discusses the lawsuit filed by eight individuals - six Navy SEALs and two of their wives - against the Associated Press on Tuesday for the use of a photograph that showed the SEALs’ faces. The suit states that the AP’s publishing […]

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The Orlando Sentinel’s Hal Boedeker set off a good one in his column on Tuesday, calling NBC’s “Today” show host Katie Couric “the logical choice” to replace Dan Rather in the anchor chair for CBS Evening News. I can’t help but believe that this column is fueled more because of the fact that Couric […]

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Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman points out that SIRIUS satellite radio has reached one million subscribers.

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While companies like Clear Channel Communications are well within the letter of the law to make acquisitions and changes in their various media outlets, it doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences that aren’t creeping in on us all. This afternoon, I came across an article by Jessica Arsenault in the Herkimer Evening Telegram about a […]

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WebMD’s public editor, Robert Davis, PhD, responded Monday to comments sent in by the site’s visitors, specifically regarding an article about mercury fillings being offered by dentists. Davis points out that while WebMD could have been “more skeptical” about some of the information it used in the article, there wasn’t a need to offer […]

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