Tag: Perry Michael Simon

We don’t know what the future will bring, or if we have a future to worry about, but we thought we were videotaping and collecting everything in news and culture and it turns out we don’t know if we can see every Bugs Bunny cartoon.

People say they want balance, but they really want their news to reinforce their own beliefs.

What do you have to lose? You're in an industry in what seems like a perpetual tailspin.

The glamour of the Woodward and Bernstein days (or the Walter Cronkite days, or the Ernie Pyle days) is long gone. If you’re just starting out, no, you don’t want to be a reporter.

How do you define local news? More to the point, how does the rest of the public define local news? I don’t propose that we...

If your audience expects you to be talking about the news, and you’re not, the listeners will learn that they won’t always get what they come to you to get.

The platforms are the ones using your opinion to make money (and train their AI engines). You get to think that your value is measured by the number of followers and likes you accumulate.

Most of what you see and hear at CES isn’t at all what the future will be like, or it’s an overblown, overstated version of what’s coming next.

Emergency information in a ubiquitous, uninterrupted manner is dependent on budgets that a lot of stations just don’t have.

Keeping the watchdogs on a short leash is good for billionaires but it isn’t good for America.