Just a little thought for the day:
Where are your ideas? Are they so light they evaporate up into the atmosphere? Are they so heavy they sink with a thud, never able to get off the ground? Or are they light enough to just levitate around you? What gives them that levity? What keeps them close to your awareness?
I couldn’t agree more with FishBowl LA. This sinks pretty low to the level of sleaze. This can’t even be called “journalism.” If ever I would have done something like this, it would have been as a morning radio jock doing a stunt and never considered “news” or “journalism.” Michael Jackson has been a star for 40 years; certainly we can all come up with something better than this to fill space. With “This Is It” just smoking the box office right now, this cannot be the best a person can do. Good grief, go see the film and review it. But don’t screw around putting out trash. Find a new angle or let the story die.
I give up. Who is it? The Huffington Post is asking this question and we get to vote on the nominees. I hardly think of anyone making traditional media moves as a game-changer. I’m learning towards the folks at The Atlantic for “treating its website as an extension of the brand.” I’d like to see every traditional media business adopt this way of doing things. Print and broadcast can benefit from evolving onto the web and finding new and non-traditional ways of creating revenue.
Who are the game changers in the media? People like Gary Vaynerchuk? How about Pam Slim? I like people like Shira Lazar and iJustine. All of these people have done something unique by combining their personal brand with several forms of media. You can’t just be in one kind of media anymore–you have to expand. I can’t just do radio and expect to survive. I love radio, but I also want to change it. The old models don’t work. So who’s coming up with the new business model? Who do you think the game game-changers are?
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