We started a Web site, but NBC refused to let us put the address on any of our ads because they didn’t want people to know the Internet existed. They were worried about losing viewers to it.
Judd Apatow in The Oral History of Freaks and Geeks. 1999 ruled. (via amandalynferri)
Sums up the entertainment industry pretty well. (via parislemon)
In a way, they were right (ratings as a whole are down, people aren’t watching TV as much), but in another way, this was so shortsighted.
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Cars are superior isolating agents, segregating us not only from other races and classes, but all kinds of “others” we encounter when we use public transit instead.
Former Goose Island and Two Brothers brewers team up to start Off Color Josh Noel reports for the Tribune that brewer John Laffler is leaving Goose Island to start a new Chicago brewery, Off Color Brewing, with Dave Bleitner most recently of Two Brothers. Both brewers studied at the Siebel Institute of Technology and were … Read more
What Will Rise from Journalism’s Ashes? futurejournalismproject: Over at theFJP.org we’re starting to do longer, “thinkier” pieces. Coming in with the first is Forrester media analyst James McQuivey who writes about what etymology and the concrete industry can teach us about the future of the news: To see [opportunities] clearly – to understand exactly what … Read more
