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Tag: <span>Media</span>

Tag: Media

The new trolls are better than the old trolls

Australian tabloid news show, Today Tonight is crying foul about being trolled by comedian professional troll, Tristan Barker. An associate of Barker’s told Today Tonight she had been bullied by Barber and the tabloid bought it, running a heavily promoted story about how they had found another victim of Tristan Barker. A Today Tonight executive producer rather huffily complained that the “victim” was nothing but an “attention seeker” and that “We found evidence to suggest that she had been bullied by Tristan Barker…when people are using fake names it gets very difficult to control.” Clearly research is not a strong …

The web makes every business a media company

I was reading in The New York Times about how Google is now a media company and it struck me that the Internet gives every business the opportunity to be a media business or at least think like a media company. Firstly, what is a media company?  A media company is a business engaged in the production or distribution of media.  Most sales,  leads,  and opportunities result from their media activities. News Ltd is an obvious example of an old style media company trying to make it in a digital world.  Google can be seen as a new style of …

When I was young everything was different

When I was 15 my chief concerns were sneaking cigarettes and my hair. I didn’t read the newspaper, rather I watched the TV news with my parents as bored as hell. The Berlin Wall was to stand for another 5 years and Ronald Reagan was talking about God a lot, even though he didn’t go to church. I was opinionated and selfish. Like most teenagers. The announcement last week that some research about how teenagers consume media released by Morgan Stanley and written by a 15 year old intern was received with breathless excitement. This kid had apparently clearly and …