The Media Drop

If this isn’t the funniest (and yet strangely serious) thing I’ve read all year, then nothing is. CNET News.com’s Declan McCullagh writes this morning that according to a piece of a new law that President Bush signed last week, you cannot while away hours on the Internet “posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail […]

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CNNMoney’s Paul La Monica writes Friday about how the splitting of Viacom into two different entities has been viewed pretty positively by the Street and business-thinkers, and what that means for the future. One of the theories included in the article is that the big company mentality might hinder the ability for some of the […]

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In what will definitely go down as a huge media blunder for the year, the coverage of last night’s “rescue” of 12 miners from a West Virginia coal mine is “tragically on display,” News.com’s Scott Ard informs - and will be forever, most likely. In case you haven’t heard about this, there were reports on […]

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Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal ran a story by Brian Steinberg and Joe Hagan about the announcement that Richard Zannino, Dow Jones’ CFO, would take the reins as CEO as of February 1. But, as you’ll probably notice, what might be the most important part of the story is in the first sentence - […]

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The Boston Globe’s Keith Reed writes about this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where all kinds of “on demand” features and products will be unleashed on the media, only to land in our living rooms, on our cellphones, and on our computers in the next few months.

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Fast Company wants to know if you’re buying your music on MP3s or CDs these days. Go over and vote!

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The AP’s Dave Carpenter details the departure of the Chicago Sun-Times‘ Red Streak tabloid paper from the market a little over a week ago not as the demise of this style of publication, but a sign of the future. Both publishers and advertisers see the tabloid papers as a way to reach younger readers, and […]

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