Since the dawn of mass media, newspapers, radio and television have all been used to inform and educate the public. They have also been used to whip mobs into a frenzy, control the world of politics and consolidate their owners’ power. These media moguls all straddled the line between entertainment and politics, preaching to the public and wielding an immense influence over lawmakers and politicians. Read the rest of this entry »
The Internet (and the American public) are never short of scandals. We peddle them like fruits, always calling a new celebrity out on their addiction, affair, private text messages or offensive jokes. While we are busy paying attention to crap… Read more
We the people of the United States of America are a very fickle people. We like to worship our celebrities. But we also like to tear down those celebrities and harshly judge them when they mess up. We also like to forgive them… if they… Read more
In the movie world you don’t necessarily need big budgets to get big returns, as this list proves beyond all doubt. Big budget flicks might seem like a sure thing, but audiences decide with their feet. Avatar might have pulled in $2.7 billion,… Read more
After browsing our newsletter subscriber numbers, I found that a relatively small proportion of our newsletter subscribers open their newsletters and click through to the featured articles. I can relate. I get a whole bunch of newsletters. A… Read more
What’s the best Super Bowl commercial ever? Reebok’s 2003 Terry Tate commercial, of course. But that’s not the focus of this list. We’re here to give you the best Super Bowl commercial of the year, for the past 21 years. Needless to say, some years… Read more
There are many brands that people recognize, but they won’t all be around forever. While that’s unfortunate, it’s part of the way products work. They have a life cycle, just like everything else. Brands usually don’t disappear when they’re highly… Read more
We like to think of Kindles and iPads as butting heads, but a recent survey shows that 40% of iPad owners also own a Kindle. TechCrunch reports: …in a recent survey of about 1,000 consumers by JP Morgan’s Internet team, 40 percent of iPad… Read more
The Internet is ablaze with blogs. We sifted through the web’s innumerable offerings to give you this year’s list of the 75 best business blogs. Our topics range from accounting to work-life balance. We selected them based on timely, useful… Read more
Time Warner Cable’s profit is up 34% this quarter, despite losing 63,000 net subscribers. Its ad revenue, meanwhile, is up 23% this quarter, reflecting a larger ad rebound, as well as a pre-election ad buy. From Dow Jones Newswires: …the… Read more
It’s a fact of life: If you put something on TV, and that something goes wrong, the world will see it. Whether it’s a TV commercial, a news episode, or a game show, unedited video footage has a knack for showing the raw side of reality. We collected… Read more
Speculation has it that Sony will release the new PlayStation Phone, an Android-powered device that represents the next evolution of its top-selling PlayStation Portable (PSP) series. Here’s a leaked image of the phone. Engadget writes that the… Read more
Plaid Creative has a great infographic covering the (pointless?) fads we’ve engaged in over the years: I do wish Hypercolor would make a comeback, if only for its entertainment value. C’mon, hipsters, make it… Read more
CNN’s Money Magazine has released its annual list of the 100 best places to live in America. Here are the top ten, to give you an idea of the kinds of town they’re going for: 1 Eden Prairie, MN 2 Columbia/Ellicott City, MD 3… Read more
Photo: Alan Light/Flickr Forbes has released its annual Celebrity 100, a list that combines pay and media exposure (including social media and the web) to determine the world’s most powerful celebrities. Here are the top 10, with their pay… Read more
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