Well, I’ve seen great success with other fun link-fests on blogs I’ve written for, and I wanted to make sure I’m bringing that same hustle to TMD, so I’m going to try and do a roundup like this at least once per week of things that I’m reading that I’m thinking you need to read as well. Suggestions are always appreciated at tom -at- themediadrop -dot- com.
- CableNewser pointing out that Katie Couric is going to spill her guts on “vision” for the gig she’s got at CBS News.
- Steve Safran shares strong comments about how the New York Times, CNN and others have misread their own brand’s perception or place in society, and how their online business models have changed after the realization settled in.
- I really didn’t want to publish anything online about Gossip Girl, but I guess nobody’s perfect. I’m kind of wanting to get all Oedipus on myself about the fact that it’s a show (sorry, @katefinn), but popwatch calls it “a perfect one-hour escape to my otherwise plebeian existence.” Oh well.
- Valleywag has one of the best quotes I’ve seen in a while, this time snagging AOL’s Frank Gruber making a huge black mark on NBC’s forehead in reax to Jeff Gaspin saying that “piracy” is the #1 priority at NBC Universal Television Group. You can’t make this stuff up if you try. Terry Heaton’s take is spot on as well.
- Over at Gizmodo, Charlie White shares the dirt on Puma’s challenge to lifestyle pubs to build bikes that reflect what those mags are all about. Puma-obsessed as I am, of course I’m linking to this thing.
- What did we do before the days when people who were part of television shows could comment on the release of those television shows for home consumption. You rock, Wil.
- Oh yeah, I forgot to stake my claim to NBC that I won’t be one of the users of “NBC Direct” when it launches, namely because I don’t have a PC at home, sans the semi-trashed laptop that’s four years old. Thanks to Chris Myers at Good Morning Silicon Valley for the reminder.
- Think of all the great stories we never got to see over the years because people couldn’t come home from TV studio audience disasters and send their experiences into Gawker. What a shame.
- Well, at least Sony is going to be all-over the marketing of the Spider-Man flick that sucked the most out of all of them.
- Tribune Co. only saw a month-over-month loss of 5.2% for revenues for the term ending 9/2, but on a positive note, national ad numbers actually increased.
- Do we or don’t we believe that the NYT discounted rate that MoveOn.org got for its ad slamming General Petraeus was legit? James Joyner doesn’t seem to. Having had experience with ad buying, I can say that the standby rate situation does exist, as do other discounts and other options or buckets you can buy into - ROP (run of paper) or section-specific requests, and so on. Hate to say this, no one will ever “know” or at least there’ll always be people who go after this sort of thing, from both sides of the coin.
- As a PR person who also gets to be the subject of interviews, I just had to laugh at this item at HuffPo about Ted Turner’s recent flack situation during an interview.
