http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12509981
chanel makes the nicest women's shoes in the world, consistently. i don't care how much jimmy choo's cost...
"But Ms Chiquet says the company will have to “get smarter and more aggressive in some ways about how we’re going to spend our money”, meaning that Chanel may no longer be able to have five advertising campaigns running at a time."
push shoes heavy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29carr.html
8000 newsroom jobs have been lost in america in the last year.
"USA Today was made exempt from the current rounds of cuts at Gannett but even national papers, including The New York Times, have resorted to modest staff cuts over the last year."
New york times needs to NOT be downsized in any way. It is vitally important.
Nobody gives a shit if Jonny Whoever washed a car in Nowhereland, America. That's why I could care less if a paper from a small city goes from 25 staff to 8 and can't afford the latest five thousand dollar camera.
But NYT is THE best paper in the world.
The reason papers are failing besides the 'it's very hard to make money on web ads' reason, is because if you flip a paper, there are like two stories that are appealing. In today's world, we might read 20 articles a day. (We're in an instant information age.) So that is why we fulfill our interests with blogs and different views.
So what to do? Hire smarter people to write stories. Listen to the readers and write articles about their interests. Use more than ONE photo EVEN IN THE PAPER VERSION for an article. Make the photos look every bit as good as the Entourage advertisement in your paper. It's called sharpening.
Embrace radical new designs for paper newspapers. Make them look better. Let an art director/graphic designer have their way with an entire section. That happens with magazines and video magazines.
Find a paper that is less dirty. Reward your paper readers.
Less can be more. Filling an entire page is optional.
If it looks better, people will buy it. True story.
But the number one thing is longer stories. You are covering it anyway. If I can read a story in two minutes, it's not interesting. NYT does this right.
ALSO: inch or inch and a half columns suck. WIDER.
the switch to bluray is mainstream. bond movies, godfather, criterion and all that. 1080p tvs under a grand...
watching a dvd quality movie will be the exception from this point on.
indie movies step up yo game. hope to see titanic within a year.
this is a long list
NEW SEASONS
90210 - great. they should make the teacher dude less desperate.
gossip girl - obviously great. i now love blake l.
one tree hill - i don't really care about the story. when i watch this, it is for other good reasons.
big bang theory - first new episode didn't disappoint.
heroes - good stuff.
family guy - always.
entourage - win.
always sunny in philadelphia - so good.
secret diary of a call girl - i didn't end up finishing season one, but i watched the first two of season two so far, and it is a high priority. really good.
hills - when you want to kill 20 minutes without having to think, this is the show to pick.
sophie - this is back. will be great.
secret life of the american teenager - almost forgot about this one.
moment of truth - whenever it's back, i'm watching. i've seen them all.
CATCHING UP
the office US - i'm in the middle of season three.
skins - almost done season two.
weeds - got like 6 more to go of the latest season.
not going out - waiting for season 2 dvd.
OF INTEREST
the o.c. - i never really saw this show and may watch it from episode one if time permits.
generation kill mini-series - i saw the first one. need to see them all.
extras - gotta catch up.
degrassi - maybe.
dexter - maybe i'll give this another go when i'm not high and it will be less creepy.
true blood - sounds like it's worth the check out.
after a summer of fun, it's only right to settle back into the fally routine.
the real reason to update this blog is because there is no other way to keep track of the tv shows i watch.
this blog is not a priority and i have no idea how often i will post stuff. but when i do, it will be the same kind of content as before.
