[Translate] This is Abraham’s Rule For Media: People Are Voyeurs. That means media works because people want to know about people. This is a rule that’s constantly violated by media journalists and editors and on a daily basis. They violate the rule the moment they cry “Who cares about what Miley Cyrus does” in reaction to some tweet or blog post about her. It’s that very cry and whine about such content that causes media giants to topple: they just don’t get that people want to know about people. People...
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[Translate] What do Warren Buffett, Zennie Abraham, Jeff Cutler, have in common? All were featured on the Tonya Hall Radio Show on Friday, May 25th. On Friday, Warren Buffett wrote a letter stating that Berkshire Hathaway intended to add more newspapers to its collection. This mainly because Buffett loves newspapers and reads five of them a day. That news formed a great conversation you can listen to now here: http://www.radioconetwork.com/rss/THS/052512_THS.mp3 ...
[Translate] As associate producer on the new documentary, #WhileWeWatch, from Director Kevin Breslin and 8com, I have had an opportunity to dive, in a face-to-the-pavement sort of way, into the new wave of citizen media. Livestreaming, blogs, free press, immediate video uploads to youtube minutes after it is filmed. Watching arrests that seem completely unwarranted from the angel of the viewer. Spending long, coffee driven nights glued to the screen watching the police raid Oakland, Zuccotti Park and various #OccupyWallSt protests...
[Translate] Obama's April 13th speech made it plain he's not caving in to extremist rhetoric and will seek pragmatic solutions. The President made a compelling case for his vision of the future of the United States, putting the GOP on notice that he is committed to the quality of life for every citizen. The debate over deficits and the federal budget, he said, is about more than just cutting and spending, characterizing the conversation as about the kind of future we want. In a pointed reference to the so-called Ryan plan,...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! On Saturday, May 2nd, my new television show starts. It’s called “The Blog Report With Zennie62″ and features the use of my video blogs in a weekly 30-minute format broadcast and co-produced by CoLoursTV in Denver and on Channel 9407 nationwide on the DISH Network, but it’s on Comcast in Florida, and Fox and Insight cable systems. The start time is 3:30 PM Pacific Time, 6:30 PM Eastern Time and the show is replayed at 11:30 PM and 2:30 PM respecfully....
[Translate] No sooner after I post a video detailing how Fox News uses sex to sell news, do I get someone who’s so busy looking for something wrong they trip over themselves. Such is the case of blogger Johnny Dollar, who hilariously writes that the cable ratings I referred to were just for prime time and so my point about Fox News using sex doesn’t matter. HA! This is one Dollar that took a dive. The cable news ratings are daily — got that Johnny — daily. The data reads “same day” and...
[Translate] Finally it seems the stock market hit bottom. After losing value since last fall, the market gained — in fits and starts — 700 points. To me, it means the market hits equilibrium where the total wealth spent in the market has matched the price level. Now, the President’s policies have not entirely taken effect, but we can say that the efforts to save key Wall Street businesses set the ground work for this recovery. To me we’re all the way there — recovered — when...
[Translate] More at SFAppeal: “As the California Media Workers Guild at the San Francisco Chronicle prepare for a ratification vote on job and compensation concessions to Hearst Corp., the union leadership is exploring potential partnerships to eventually acquire the newspaper. “In 16 months,” said Carl Hall, local Guild representative at The Chronicle, “we should be talking about buy in and not buy-outs.” In an interview Tuesday, Hall was looking past the painful week of negotiations that produced the tentative...
[Translate] According to Real Clear Politics, The San Francisco Chronicle is one of ten newspapers in trouble. The total list in order from “still alive” to “almost passed on” is: 10. NY Daily News9. LA Times8. St. Paul Pioneer Press7. Chicago Sun-Times6. Detroit News5. San Francisco Chronicle4. Miami Herald3. Philadelphia Daily News2. Rocky Mountain News1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer The San Francisco Chronicle, at number five, may cease to exist if management and union can’t get together on an...
[Translate] More at SF Gate: “(02-06) 16:48 PST DUBLIN — Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer accused of murder in the Jan. 1 shooting death of an unarmed man on the Fruitvale Station platform in Oakland, was released this afternoon on $3 million bail, authorities said. Mehserle, 27, posted bail at 3:45 p.m. and was released from Santa Rita Jail without incident, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department said.” ...
[Translate] More from “The Washington Monthly”: “THE ‘OLD’ MCCAIN ISN’T COMING BACK…. As much as I’d like to ignore John McCain’s “analysis” of the economic stimulus plan, he’s not making it easy. For the last couple of weeks, he’s been on all the networks, undermining the administration’s plan, questioning the president’s integrity, and making strange policy arguments. With no obvious Republican leader on the national stage, the media is still turning to...
[Translate] Bowoto v. Chevron Is Back In U.S. 9th District Court, Northern California, San Francisco, Feb 6th 2009 and for the purpose of the plaintiffs explaining why a new trial is needed. The plaintiffs (Bowoto) believe that the core idea that claims Chevron acted in violation of the Alien Tort Act was not understood by the jury, but given the nature of the incident — tresspassing by Bowoto — it’s hard for me to see how they can make that claim. ...
