The Media Drop

For awhile, I had seen the volume of “hit pieces” and negative press that so-called “new media” tools were getting in major publications as a totally bad thing, and that some of the writers didn’t get it. That might still be the case (the latter, that is), but now I’m beginning to feel like at […]

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The New York Observer’s Rebecca Dana details the moves of some well-known Western television personalities who are joining Al-Jazeera, lured with promises of foreign bureaus and new opportunities. Specifically, she tells of how ex-CNNer Riz Khan described his move to former President Bush and Colin Powell, who apparently were concerned at first but appear to […]

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Over at Newsbusters, Brad Wilmouth writes about last night’s Countdown on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann had Janeane Garofalo on, and ended up in a discussion against conservatives and FOX News. Apparently, the two had fun trashing FOX’s Fox & Friends show, which Olbermann called “punishment” to watch.

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Dave Winer mentioned on Friday that he’d be unsubscribing from BusinessWeek’s RSS feeds soon, because of the volume of ads that are showing up. This isn’t the only example of complaints I’m hearing about this right now, hence this site’s using of them every third entry - but it’s going to be a big concern, […]

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The PiPress‘ Gordon Wittenmyer writes about this week’s “Monday Night Football” as being the sixth-to-last of the decades-long series of football games that ABC has broadcast to Americans from coast to coast. When the MNF shift is completed, we’ll have ESPN covering that night’s games, and ESPN giving up its Sunday Night Football programming to […]

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Dan Gillmor writes about a change he noticed when shopping in an airport shop for books - a size and price change. It looks like the books have slightly gotten bigger from certain publishers, and said books are coming with approximately a $2 price increase. Ouch. Anyone else seen this?

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Jason Calacanis, whose Weblogs, Inc. Network I do some writing for at AdJab, TV Squad and a few other sites, is looking for a couple good PHP/AJAX developers in the Santa Monica area for the next few months. If you’re interested, head on over to his blog and ping him with any questions you might […]

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CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo has landed in the slower world of print media, but offers a different angle into her style and sense. She’ll be penning a bi-weekly column for BusinessWeek, which will run both in print and online, entitled “Face Time with Maria Bartiromo.” The first of (hopefully) many a column ran a few days […]

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Just was reading through some posts on AdJab, and was looking through an item Chris Thilk wrote about Google supposedly testing print advertisements in Chicago-area newspapers. After doing a little digging, we came up with much more details on Google’s efforts in the area, currently called Google Publication Ads, running off the AdWords platform - […]

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The Boston Globe’s Jenn Abelson writes Wednesday about Reebok’s participation - as a producer - in the on-demand station that Comcast will be offering later on this week.

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