IT WAS GUARANTEED TO GET full media attention, President Barack Obama‘s unprecedented trip to the Pentagon to personally announce the US military’s mid-term future.
Defense correspondents and commentators did not have to read between the lines much to pass on the twin message that our armed forces will be managed in a leaner fashion, and with a decided tilt strategically toward countering threats in Asia. Continue reading “Presidential Media ‘Contest’ Pales Beside China Challenge” »
THE YEAR AHEAD OFFERS a few salient peaks of interest for the media consumer. But I’m not talking of the U.S. presidential election, which already has a lackluster feel. Continue reading “2012 Media Predictions, Besides Who Wins White House” »
THIS MEDIA YEAR, WHICH IS closing with courtroom cameras covering Egypt’s deposed President Hosni Mubarak on trial for killing his own citizens in the streets, opened with those streets astir with protests.
A lot certainly can happen in a year, and 2011 has been an especially vintage year for news, much of it presaged by those stirrings in Egypt. Continue reading “Stories That Set A World Ablaze” »
WHAT IS THE MOST MENDACIOUS MEDIUM? We get an answer, in early word of a study to be published in next March’s issue of the Journal of Business Ethics. Continue reading “The Phone’s Fickle Power — in Text and Image” »
THIS DECLINING YEAR has been the centennial of Marshall McLuhan‘s birth — the man who was, if not the father or godfather, then at least our leading prophet of media-driven political and social change. Continue reading “Century of Influence — Undervalued By Mainstream” »
