The Media Drop

Bunny McIntosh writes about her experience of being part of MTV’s “Room Raiders” show. She gives some really great insights on what actually goes on between camera shots - not that we’re surprised. (Okay, at least I’m not surprised.)
[Hat tip: Shabe]

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On Sunday, TIME publicly announced that President George W. Bush has been named the magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2004.
For sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes—and ours—on his faith in the power of leadership, George W. Bush is TIME’s 2004 […]

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The Media Drop (TMD) believes that editorial content and advertising shall operate in seperate “houses,” and neither shall affect the integrity of the other. That said, advertisements may promote products, services, companies, or ideologies that do not necessarily reflect those of The Media Drop or its author(s).
However, The Media Drop may choose […]

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Billboard’s Brian Garrity covers the deal between EMI Music Publishing and Sony BMG Music Entertainment wherein the companies have set price “guidelines” for methods of music delivery, such as ringtones. The most important part of the article, however, is:
The deal also figures to help Sony BMG and EMI Music Publishing in their own in-house […]

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Commenting is back open, with TypeKey authentication now in effect. A lot of people have expressed their dislike of having to use it, but it’s one step of many that are needed right now to slow down comment spamming, which has been the bane of my site of late. It’s a little quirky […]

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ESPN.com now features RSS support, with quite a few flavors to choose from. Feeds are available for both professional and college sports headlines, plus oodles of columnists. And yes, there is a feed for Bill Simmons.

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Reuters’ Paul Gallagher details the plan for the Amsterdam apartment Anne Frank once lived in to become a safe haven for “foreign writers and journalists who face censorship or persecution” in their home country.

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The Pennsylvania State Tourism Office goes online with a slick little teaser film series to promote visiting the state. Let’s just say it’s….unique.
[link via Uncle Horn Head; quote from Groundhog Day via IMDb]

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On Friday, the Associated Press reported that the Torrance, California-based Daily Breeze would be outsourcing the newspaper’s printing operations. 87 positions will “eventually” be affected by this move.

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Vacaville, California’s The Reporter ran a letter to the editor on Friday attacking the “left media,” primarily on their coverage of the War in Iraq. Obviously people will have differences in opinion on those statements, but one thing that the letter’s author says seems to a growing trend:
Because of alternate sources - talk radio, […]

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