It’s always a delicate and difficult task when you’re a reporter covering media and you have to do a story on the media company that employs you. And so the ink-stained wretches at The Wall Street Journal can be forgiven for their tentative take on the real meaning of a stunner of an announcement on […]
A Prodigal Son Returns Read More »
Zuckie has done it again! With Facebook’s latest crazy acquisition—$2 billion in cash and stock for a virtual-reality goggles startup that has neither revenue nor even customers—it is now official: There isn’t a stock-market bubble, but Facebook itself is a bubble. Mark Zuckerberg’s buying binge looks like a disjointed food-fight strategy funded by Monopoly money:
Facebook’s Virtual Unreality Read More »
Part 2. See also Part 1: Comcast’s Bite at the Apple http://denniskneale.com/comcasts-bite-at-the-apple/347 A deal between Apple and Comcast would be a huge advance for Net-TV, streaming live and on-demand video from a new Apple set-top device plugged directly into Comcast cable systems. But it would be bad for Netflix. And it also could hasten the erosion
The Comcast-Netflix Equation Read More »
Newsflash: Apple is in talks with Comcast, the nation’s #1 cable giant, about starting a new Internet-based streaming service, The Wall Street Journal reports this morning. Topspin: I got three angles for you. First: Comcast shouldn’t do it. Second: This net-TV stuff will be far more difficult than expected. And third: Netflix be wary—your real
Comcast’s Bite at the Apple Read More »
One of the most popular shows on television is AMC’s “Walking Dead,” replete with necrotic flesh, apocalyptic violence and the never-ending struggle just to survive. Which could be a prescient plot line for the TV networks themselves. For a decade or more we’ve heard that content is king, but now the King is Dead, or
The Networks: Walking Dead Read More »
Would someone please explain something to me: When did liberals get so utterly intolerant? To me, tolerance of opposing views, almost a kind of patient sympathy for those unenlightened individuals who just don’t get it yet, always had been a hallmark of liberalism: Live and let live. But in the Obama era, it’s Live and
Liberals & Intolerance Read More »
This cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan in the January 20, 2014 issue of The New Yorker says it all. Never before in the history of mankind and communication have so many little people been granted so large a platform to air and share their views. The Internet revolution should have spawned a Renaissance of insight
The Outrage Brigade Read More »
“I’ve always been . . . a provocateur.” That was my opening line in a mini-profile TV spot that CNBC taped with me as part of its “I am CNBC” campaign a few years ago. Truth in advertising. But I never expected to provoke the firestorm of bitter, mean-spirited, angry reaction that greeted a simple
The Haters on ZeroHedge Read More »
We read ZeroHedge so you don’t have to! Now and then, you get some funny exchanges, albeit ever so rarely. Profanity alert. Goatboy Rule #11: Kill yourself! World will be so much better without another neurotic, super-ambitious, job-obsessed careerist. Kaiser Sousa i cant stand that bitch made mother fucking banker/wall st. presstitute… Hey Dennis,
ZeroHedge Comments on How to be Jobless Read More »
Senator Dianne Feinstein of California must be suffering from whiplash. For months she has defended the NSA’s mass surveillance of billions of phone calls, e-mails, video chats and more, saying it safeguards the nation. “What keeps me up at night, candidly, is another attack against the United States. And I see enough of the threat