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Tina Brown and The Daily Beast Hitting the Internet Airwaves
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, celebrities, CEOs/Financial on July 21, 2011
Let’s not look at the announcement of Tina Brown and The Daily Beast preparing to launch an online talk show as a major step down for someone who once had her own interview show on CNBC. Lets look at it as the next wave of broadcasting.
Just like the actual print newspaper is becoming a dinosaur with the majority of people getting their news online, a growing portion of the public watches most if not all of their programing online. The lines between what was broadcast TV and cable TV has blurred and it will blur even more as more and more high quality programming is produced for an online audience only.
What does it mean when Howard Kurtz leaves the Washington Post – media analysis
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, Communications, Media, Social Media on October 5, 2010
My God! Howie Kurtz is leaving the Washington Post for the Daily Beast!!! You don’t get much more mainstream media than Howard Kurtz. If he is jumping ship, what hope do the other ink-stained wretches have?
What’s going on here? It may be, that after nearly 30 years at the Post, Kurtz has pushed his salary and benefits package north of $250 k a year and the Post said, “Enough!” Or it may be that that Post’s “ethics” rules prevented him from making 20 speeches a year at $25k a pop. So did The Daily Beast lure him away with higher pay? I doubt it. But with his newfound flexibility and his high name ID, Kurtz may be able to make a lot more money on the lecture tour and as a free agent (even if the Beast pays him nothing).
The GOP Sound Bite King
Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Humor, Media Training, Politics, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Social Speaking, Uncategorized on November 20, 2008
The following is from the Daily Beast. If you are looking for an example of someone who can consistently frame every single thought into a perfect sound bite, then look no further that Mike Huckabee.Â
Mike Huckabee is saying what a lot of people are thinking about the danger of Obama tangling with the Clintons. “If he’s floating that balloon it better fly, because I think that to float the idea, and then to pull it away, I just think it would be disastrous for him from a public relations standpoint,†the former Arkansas governor told The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins. “It would be twice having rung the doorbell and not taken her to the dance.†The Obama camp is playing with fire, he suggests. “Surely they did know that she was married, and that her husband is named Bill, and that he used to be President. It wasn’t like they woke up and said, ‘Oh my, you know, I forgot all about him.’ You don’t open the door when you’re pretty sure there’s fire on the other side of it that’s going to come in and scorch the room.†Hot stuff.
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