MediaBizBuzz for March 17, 2008: You Just Don't Understand: Whoever Said That The "Old Guard" Would "Embrace" Change?

What do former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro MPAA head Dan Glickman and Rev Jeremiah Wright Jr all have in common Apart from their recent statements landing with huge resounding thuds the psychology of their perspectives has a rationale Congresswoman Ferraro ascended to a presidential ticket at a time when women were still expected to get married rather than make partner Footnote Les Moonves recently blamed Katie Couric39s less than stellar ratings on men over 50 leaving her broadcast postSchieffer Mr Glickman can still recall a straightforward relationship between movies and their audience Rev Wright it must be noted is from a generation where it was commonplace for an AfricanAmerican man with a JD to get a job at the Post Office as Thurgood Marshall did It shouldn39t be a shock then that sociopolitical advances and disruptive technologies can be misinterpreted as insurgency For that matter aren39t the campaigns of Barack Obama and Ron Paul examples of tapping into not only fundraising as Howard Dean did during the last election cycle but of organizing from the bottom up To be sure in the homestead of Carville and Matalin that39s heresy It39s The Economy Stupid Certainly Bear Stearns feels their pain Last week after it was made public that the Fed would bail the investment bank out its stock tumbled 50 and the Dow itself fell 200 points Today JP Morgan announced an acquisition at 2share setting it back some 2362 million But we39re hardly out of the woods Just as Bernanke announces the next round of rate cuts tomorrow the Sunday Telegraph reports that Goldman Sachs will take a 3 billion writedown on Tuesday Not that all other deals came to a standstill Google got the EU go ahead for DoubleClick while continuing to dominate all other media properties according to a study that Henry Blodget conducted over at Silicon Alley Insider Even as AOL is rumored to be slashing half of its salesforce it acquired social network Bebo for 860 million Disney39s Bob Iger built and bought an igloo on Club Penguin Then there are the ongoing He Said He Saids in Pellicano and DillerMalone watch the trial here Later in the week Jack Myers will be parsing how economics will affect us from an Upfront perspective Traffic Cops NewsCorp and NBC online video lovechild Hulu finally left beta Our own Ed Martin hearts it as does BusinessWeek Even AdAge gushes that its ads are engaging Over at PaidContent the upuntilrecently inaccessible Jason Kilar gives Stacy Kramer some face time Sure Hulu39s gorgeous and clean but its broader significance is that it brings us further closer to a debate about Web traffic Right now the FCC is aruminating about quotbroadband network practicesquot thanks to Vuze39s filing against Comcast In parallel the debate over Net Neutrality is heating up again given more oxygen by Dan Glickman39s recent remarks TechDirt takes the MPAA to task for this shortterm thinking while noting that the IFTA39s proNet Neutrality one poster39s response to Glickman quotYou are a buggy whip in an automobile agequot P2P Ready For Your Closeup It does seem like DRM for music that P2P peer to peer file sharing is being normed by mainstream media Verizon partners with Pando revealing that P2P has increased their download speeds by 60 or more while lowering the cost overheads of traffic BusinessWeek tracks down the elusive founder of YouTorrent an index of 17 torrent Web sites which at three months old has 10 of the iTunes store39s traffic Even The Economist is swept away illegal movie downloading site ZML leaves them breathless The FCC39s far from the calm center of this storm While Congress has begun investigating the management practices of Kevin Martin the independent GAO has its back finding that the FCC ignores 80 of its complaints Even Comcast is piling on suing the FCC over an alleged anticable bias In his interview with Silicon Alley Insider BitTorrent39s new CEO Doug Walker lets it drop that he39s had a cordial relationship with Comcast CTO Tony Werner seems that one hand doesn39t know that the other is forging packets Done Deals and Golden Parachutes Clear Channel has finally consummated with Providence Equity Partners The Weather Channel which put on one helluva an Upfront with Gnarls Barkley and remains in play is about to broadcast all HD 247 Online TV video site Next New Networks raised 15 million for its 12 video networks from Velocity Interactive Group and Goldman Sachs hmmm As Microsoft circles Yahoo and prepares to take its first meeting it braces for the tsunami that will be GoogleClick by acquiring Rapt Debbie Richman joins Lifetime as evp of ad sales Sensing an opening Spotrunner poached Joanne Bradford from Microsoft bringing some real credibility to its sales efforts Saying their adieus are HBO president Carolyn Strauss and MTV Networks39 John Sykes Even Second Life founder Phil Rosedale is stepping down in his role as CEO and looking for a successor who can given the virtual world broader appeal and greater usability one hopes Private equity investors seem to think that it39s time what with the omnipresence of Google and the economic downturn that we39ll be seeing a consolidation among Web properties Damn Chicago39s VIX nicknamed the Fear Index which rose 142 last week it39s highest jump in five years If we are to embrace disruptive technologies Harvard Business School management practices professor Bill George opines in BusinessWeek that we must seek out disruptive CEOs leaders who39ll inspire innovation and entrepreneurship Amen to that

Become a Thought Leader.
Share your thought leadership article with industry professionals & have them archived in Thought Leadership

MediaBizBuzz for March 17, 2008: You Just Don't Understand: Whoever Said That The "Old Guard" Would "Embrace" Change?

Author

Publish date

Channel

Jerry Weinstein

"About That with Carl Mayer:" Alaina Donnellon (Episode 10: Political Spending) - By Carl Mayer

More Videos:

Become a Thought Leader. Share your thought leadership article with industry professionals & have them archived in Thought Leadership

MediaBizBuzz for March 17, 2008: You Just Don't Understand: Whoever Said That The "Old Guard" Would "Embrace" Change?

Enjoying This Commentary? There's More to Love

Jerry Weinstein

"About That with Carl Mayer:" Alaina Donnellon (Episode 10: Political Spending) - By Carl Mayer

The payment was successful

Cookies

Become a Thought Leader.
Share your thought leadership article with industry professionals & have them archived in Thought Leadership