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Sartre on Choices
“We are our choices.…”
Einstein on Creativity
“Imagination is more important than knowledge….”
Keith Olbermann on David Letterman’s Retirement
Paying Attention: David Letterman–the thinking man’s late night talk show host–announced his retirement last week. It has reverberated throughout the media world in almost every corner of the globe because Letterman is one of the greats and in terms of the Emmy’s he’s collected over the years, certainly the most creative person to ever fill …
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Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370: ClickPak 3 April
Press Clippings: Updates from the world’s press on Malaysian Airlines Flt. 370 Flt 370 Investigation May Go On and On and On (Source: CBSnews.com) Flt 370 Search Could Take Years (Source; CNN) How to track a plane (Source: BBC ) Computer Models Essential to Finding Flt. 370 (Source: Forbes.com) What’s In The Black Box? (Source: …
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The Secrets of Politically Correct Branding
Paying Attention: Today’s marketing and personal/social media world is perhaps way too heavily invested in branding–and not always for the right reasons. There are corporate brands, brand values, brand initiatives, and personal brands (when I hear professional athletes talk about their personal brand, it seems pretty ridiculous to me; just because you can hit a …
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Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370: ClickPak 1 April
Press Clippings: A variety of the latest press stories from around the world on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Last words from cockpit (Source: CNN) Ping Detector from US Navy Moved To Search Area (Source: cbsnews.com) Malaysia Airlines Cockpit Transcript (Source: USA Today) Deliberate Act Possible in Malaysia Airlines FT. 370 (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) Search …
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Reading List: Monocle Magazine
Paying Attention: Tyler Brûlé is one of the best minds in publishing, which is an inherently interesting industry that needs all the fresh minds it can gather in these days of digital downloads and low reading comprehension aspirations. Brûlé’s work first came to notice with the rather spectacular big-format glossy Wallpaper, which debuted in 1996 .While he …
Jon Stewart On CNN’s FLT 370 Coverage
Paying Attention: It’s no secret that on this site, we have a viewpoint on what’s going on with TV news–especially CNN–regarding the Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370 disaster/catastrophe/mystery. We covered that particular topic just about 10 days ago, in the post “The Good News About Bad News”. Now, the big hitters have jumped in, including …
The Breaking News Epidemic
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in 2015 but is just as timely–perhaps even more timely–today than when it was first released. We are going into a period of extended “breaking news” interruptions due to the chaos in Washington and the 2020 Election Year Cycle, so it’s not a bad idea to revisit the …