Everyone has their daily on-line routine — the dozen or so websites that you check out of interest or habit. You should add one more, because 2004 gets closer every day. By mid-morning every weekday, ABC News’ Political Unit puts together something called The Note. It culls the best of Big Media’s political reporting for the […]
Continue reading... February 8, 2003
Water Passion on NPR
A few months ago, I got to perform in the New York premiere of The Water Passion after St. Matthew, by the Chinese composer Tan Dun. (If the name sounds familiar, it’s probably because wrote the Oscar-winning soundtrack for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.) One of the other members of the chorus (and a good friend) […]
Continue reading... February 6, 2003
Well, *This* is Bad News…
From Reuters: Men who don’t shave every day enjoy less sex and are 70% more likely to suffer a stroke than daily shavers, a new study shows. A team at Bristol University in England who examined the link between shaving, coronary heart disease and stroke in 2,438 middle-aged Welsh men found that men who did […]
Continue reading... February 4, 2003
Death of the Jingle
Heard any good jingles lately? I thought not. A piece in AdAge points out that For New York music houses — recording studios with paid staff and a stable of exclusive writers and producers — the estimated $150 million business was off by 25% last year, according to the Association of Music Producers. That’s following a […]
Continue reading... February 4, 2003
Why Not Everyone Should Live in NYC
From the AP: PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. 淼 A couple is suing the franchisee of a McDonald’s restaurant, claiming an improperly prepared bagel damaged the husband’s teeth and their marriage. <snip> Tracey Johnstone, owner of Johnstone Foods, said she never before had a bagel complaint and had no idea how it could have been prepared […]
Continue reading... February 4, 2003
Today’s Dumb Hed
Newsday’s got a story about how young folk get their news from the Web instead of TV or print. The headline: Why Won’t Johnny Read? … missing the point completely that getting information online is reading. Maybe it should have been “Why Won’t Johnny Pay Us $1/Day to Get Only the Information We Want to […]
Continue reading... February 4, 2003
Adam Sandler Will Have a Ball With This
Astonishing story from the Boston Globe. Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, presidential candidate, practicing Catholic, member of the prominent Winthrop and Forbes clans, husband to the Heinz food fortune is (wait for it)…. Jewish. The Globe did some deep genealogical research into Kerry and dug out stuff like his grandfather committing suicide in the men’s room […]
Continue reading... February 1, 2003
Moment of Silence
Dreadful news today. Just awful. My heart goes out to the family, friends and colleagues of the astronauts.
Continue reading... January 31, 2003
More on Editors For Sale
The Editorial Auction story keeps getting better. Lee Scheslinger, the brains of the operation, says eBay’s now yanked the whole thing. Hardly matters, though, because the story’s now run in the Boston Globe, Wired, and UPI. Lee’s been interviewed on the local Boston Fox News station and has been interviewed by the NYTimes and Reuters. […]
Continue reading... January 29, 2003
$100 Billion Goes Poof
AOL Time Warner reported its 4Q2002 results today. Cash flow looks pretty good. Revenue’s pretty good. Margins are pretty good. One thing, though. The company wrote down $44.6 Billion (roughly $10 per share), mostly in goodwill. This is in addition to the $54 Billion it wrote down in 1Q 2002. One hundred Billion dollars in […]
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