Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, November 02, 2008


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, Acquisitions

For 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.

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