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Jim Marshall says that while the Arab Spring seemed to be a righteous uprising, aided and abetted by a liberating social media network, events at home (in the riots and the hacking scandal) saw a potentially more unsavoury side to the use of some media channels… not so much an Arab Spring as an English Rusty Nail!
Having let the dust settle, allowing me time to watch Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture in its entirety, I was struck by his sincerity, self-deprecation (“if we were responsible for TV programming, you’d get a lot of bad sci-fi”) and an innate understanding of where TV fits in the new media eco-system.
The latest ABC release for the regional newspaper market is very illuminating – not for the continued percentage declines in newspapers sold, which continues unabated, but for the online usage stats.
James Whitmore, MD of POSTAR, wants to escape the narrow ghetto of specific media choices…
NEW: Another six months of tables and tables of data have hit my inbox. Almost 100 pages of numbers – nearly the same number of pages as Grazia – but with none of the pictures, products and ads to look at…