Steve May, who sold the Times of Acadiana to Thomson in 1996, tells Gambit Weekly it was subsequent acquirer Gannett that brought him out of retirement. May says he started his new paper, The Independent, because Gannett is "on the verge of owning Louisiana. They are two markets away from total ownership concentration." Ted Power, who serves as publisher of both the Times of Acadiana and Gannett's local daily, The Advertiser, admits the weekly has declined in quality since Gannett's acquisition. "The Times has been neglected," he says, promising to revamp the paper, moving it further away from its alternative-weekly roots
As the Bush administration calls for billions more in funding to resocialize war-battered Afghanistan and Iraq, Pasadena Weekly asked politicians, pundits, writers, artists, actors and other well-known figures where they think America stands at the two-year mark of the war on terrorism. Most deplored the war on terror's biggest casualty -- Americans' own freedoms. But leftie icon Christopher Hitchens says we should all get used to living under the cloud of war and stiffen our resolve to destroy the enemy that wants to kill us.
Toyota Motor Sales USA is giving its second- generation Prius a bigger and broader media push -- an estimated $30 million in the 2004 model year -- in the hopes it can educate consumers who still have misconceptions about the car's hybrid gas-battery technology.
ROI was the major focus of the Kagan World Media conference on sponsored programming and product placement, which was held Wednesday in New York.
After working at the paper for over a decade and filling in as interim editor on three separate occasions, the veteran Admissions Committee member is named to replace John Yewell. There are two Ben Fultons, says Publisher John Saltas: The one who "has a special rapport with budding writers and the respect of veteran wordsmiths," and the "worry-wort" who "is consumed with the curse of being only nearly perfect."
The Bay Guardian's Camille T. Taiara compiles and digests the top 10 censored or underreported stories from this year's Project Censored! The neocons' plan for global domination tops the list of big stories the mainstream news media downplayed or ignored in 2002. "The neoconservative blueprint for U.S. military domination is hardly a secret. A group called the Project for a New American Century -- a think tank founded by hawks who now hold prominent jobs in the White House -- released a version of it three years ago. The document is shocking in its candor: it asserts that the United States should be moving unilaterally to assert military control around the globe and that all that’s necessary to jump-start the effort is a 'new Pearl Harbor,'” Taiara writes.
Council of the U.S. and the Beer Institute announced they will only buy advertising in media that has an audience that is 70% adult, up from the current 51%. The new figure could mean some TV shows and magazines might have fewer beer ads and could make attracting a teen audience less desirable to media programmers, but both alcohol groups said the ad changes would be very limited.
