Victims, Victims Everywhere on Time Warner's HLN
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Posted 11.05.2009
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Media
Last week when I blogged about CNN falling into fourth place in the cable news channel ratings, I became a victim of my blogging.
Last week when I blogged about CNN falling into fourth place in the cable news channel ratings, I became a victim of my blogging.
They didn't jump up, pump their fists, look to the heavens, or even smile. They just did their jobs in a non-demonstrative, professional manner -- with a dignity rarely seen on commercial television.
Ken Auletta has written another enlightening book that explains what's going on in the media: Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. If you want to understand the new world, buy it and read it.
This is a good Monday. I'm sitting at my computer listening to the new Norah Jones album I downloaded, I got my appointment letter for teaching at NY...
After 25 years, Oprah is going to abandon the aging broadcast TV dinosaur, which will help push the medium into extinction.
The problem is that the instant availability and accessibility of the world's information has reduced the compulsion or desire, it appears, for social interaction. The Internet has isolated people in their own private worlds.
