Posted
4:31 PM
by Gene
If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:
1. Some pleasing news on the advertisers-as-reverse-Robin-Hoods front for once:
Media Dollars Drop Despite Election Year [Emphasis added]
Thank you, stupid, venal, obsessively spending pols, for your subsidy to a most worthy charity!
2.
Which isn't to say we can't be upbeat, especially after a talk from a certain Goddess's flacks. Translation: Don't pay attention to what happened after She endorsed The Lord.
3.
Shucks, even beautiful near-naked women may not be enough to lure young men into certain Web sites for retards -- or the mentally-deficient advertisers who MUST spend on them.4.
What Credit Crisis Means for Media Mergers, AcquisitionsFor moguls: BAD. For the rest of us -- GOOD! No mergers and acquisitions for a while!
Interesting factoid: Did you know there's an
Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III who's CEO of a company "which publishes magazines including Backpacker and Yoga Journal"? (
AdAge being a mere trade jernal it spells his name "Zimablist".) From
violining to
The FBI to yoga in three generations. (And there's an
Efrem IV, who runs a hedge fund. Oops!) Interesting.