News is what somebody somewhere is trying to suppress. The rest is advertising. – Lord Northcliffe, cited in New Yorker, March 9, 2009 P.21 Sadly, the news business is in dire straits in America these days. Every other day, it seems like a newspaper is folding in the U.S. The 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News shut […]
Hey guys, if you still haven’t watched Jon Stewart skewer the gasbag financial news network CNBC you are really missing something. Here’s an excerpt: If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today provided I started with $100 million. – Comedian Jon Stewart. Related Links Jim Cramer gets F*&%$# by Jon Stewart
(Thanks to Sanewar and Lucifersam for recommending Gomorrah) Gomorrah (Italian) takes the gangster/Mafia genre of movies to an entirely new level. If Godfather, Scarface and even Cidade de Deus (City of God) glorified the criminals, put them up on a pedestal and made them seem almost godly despite their violence, Gomorrah knocks them off their high perch and […]
Guys, here comes the third instalment of Amazing America. You think folks here are any less weirder than back home in India. No way. * Los Angeles county spent about $13,000 to pursue a $1,004 debt owed by a grandma living on social security. No kidding. Read this L.A.Times story. * A few weeks back, […]
The digital media blogs are all atwitter that MySpace COO Amit Kapur is leaving. Apparently, Kapur plans to start a new venture. It seems two other MySpace executives – Jim Benedetto, SVP of Engineering and Steve Pearman, SVP of Product Strategy – are joining Amit in his new venture. Amit Kapur Kapur, 27, joined MySpace in […]
We live in unusual times. America is struggling while China and India are thriving. But in the movie business, it’s the other way around. Lately, Hollywood is thriving while Bollywood is gasping for breath. Hard Times for Bollywood Bollywood is struggling with movie (Yuvraaj) after movie (Chandni Chowk to China) after movie (Billu Barber) after […]