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Slate.com has a clever and crafty video that brings voters up to speed on the last two weeks of the presidential campaign, which, blessedly, comes to a close on Tuesday (Nov. 4). “The Power Recap” condenses the final weeks of the campaign into two minutes. It’s all here: Obama’s connection to William Ayers, who co-founderd [...]

We at ScribeMedia don’t pretend to tell you how to vote. We just say, vote. It’s good for you like multigrains with a side of pomegranate juice. Even 23/6 says so.

Blame it on Jon Stewart. We love the guy, but the success of “The Daily Show” seems to be sending traditional news executives into a jealous frenzy — and people who tune in to CNN for hard news will be the poorer for it. Of course, the blurring of TV news and entertainment is an [...]

Reports are circulating that The New York Sun (at least the print edition) will shutter, as soon as next Monday (if not this fall). If the ‘Sun’ does go down, it will be a damn shame.
Launched in 2002, the conservative-leaning newspaper (70,000 circ.) has apparently been whipsawed by declining ad revenues and the generally lousy economy [...]

There were a few sparks Thursday during the Dot Bomb 2.0? panel at OMMA (Online Media, Marketing and Advertising Conference and Expo) Global New York, dubbed “Platform Wars.” 
Following several years of sustained growth, online advertising growth rates are starting to slow. What’s more, fledging online companies are burning through cash without adequately monetizing their traffic. So is the (latest) party finally [...]

Ernie and Bert get the Gangsta treatment.

With the presidential election, er, silly season, shifting into warp speed, the Chief Marketing Officers at many of the nation’s biggest brands have some unsolicited advice for Messrs. McCain and Obama: Don’t go negative in political advertising.
An August survey by marketing services company Epsilon found that 85% of CMOS and senior marketers are negative on “ads that are critical of [...]

“We as a nation have got to ask outselves, what the hell is going on.” — Indeed.

Man, there was enough hot air at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to steam a battleship to China. Now that the bloviating from  both sides is done, prepare for “Lou Dobbs Tonight Independent Convention.” 
I’ve never been a big fan of Dobbs and his brand of class warfare that he traffics in on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” [...]

This morning I attended the introduction of The Wall Street Journal’s highly anticipated lifestyle magazine, WSJ.
At a time when most newspaper companies continue to dial back investment in their ink-on-paper products because of the Web, the Journal is forging ahead with print (backed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which officially acquired Dow Jones, publisher of the [...]