Parental responsibility and the power of media

The other night at the video store I overheard a conversation between a mother and her son. The boy was somewhere between 4-6 years old.
Boy: Mommy, look there’s Scream! Can we get it?
Mother: No, I don’t think so, we watched it 6 times last week. Let’s find something else.
A few minutes later, she approached the [...]

Bamgoogled?

I hate to say it but the continuing failure of the newspaper industry is almost, almost justifiable when its figureheads show their ignorance of new media technologies, publicly no less. Google’s CEO Eric E. Schmidt spoke at a newspaper convention recently, and was forced to answer uninformed questions from newspaper executives about [...]