The Media Drop

If you thought it was classic that The Onion even released the Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early on its own, then you’ll find it even better that it made it into Bill Moyers’ Journal at pbs.org. Even better though is that it made the TV program, as well. Here’s a clip below:

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Just got an email this morning from TiVo stating that its “TiVo Rewards” program, the one that gives you points for referring others to TiVo and using a TiVo credit card, is ending as of May 28th.

How many TiVos can you recommend in the next 90 days, huh?

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How did I miss until now that Riki Rachtman was doing mad video for NASCAR?

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Further making me want to shoot myself in the head is the quote Gruber pulled from an article on Techdirt, about TiVo vs. a video-on-demand product.
If you guessed $2.4 billion for the value of Getty Images’ archive, you win!
Romenesko notes the WaPo’s latest style changes. “Gay” is now in, “illegal aliens” are now “illegal immigrants.” […]

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I’d be remiss for not pointing to the fact that Mark Lisanti is leaving Defamer, and on to other pastures. So I’m pouring off a little bit of the, well, what’s this - umm, water from the watercooler - for my dearly departed blogger pal, Mark. Cheers, Mark, and we’ll be keeping an eye on […]

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The Hollywood Reporter’s Nellie Andreeva and Etan Vlessing are talking about how U.S. networks are bringing content to the air that is Canadian in origin. Of course, Americans have been snagging good ideas from other countries for years, just in dribs and drabs (most good game shows, plus NBC’s The Office, to name a few). […]

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The WSJ’s Stephanie Kang has a story on Thursday discussing TNS Media Research’s move to pull info from 100k DirecTV subscribers to get some “new” information about how people are watching television.
Personally, I’m all for something that uses a slightly larger sample than one with five digits. And make sure an check out the […]

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Just caught on iLounge that PBS stations from some markets have been placing content onto iTunes U. Smart.

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You’ll most certainly enjoy this latest item from The Onion News Network, featuring what appear to be concentric circles in some on-screen graphics, and what they might actually represent.
Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot
Wow, just wow. Happy Friday!

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The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel reports this afternoon that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch wouldn’t be lifting the pay wall on the online version of the WSJ. Realistically, most of us media-followers didn’t *really* expect the pay wall to fall down, but there had been such detailed reporting on the topic that at least […]

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