Media

Can news reporters use virtual reality? This is the question that participants at “Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News” tried to answer at SXSW. I had the feeling that somewhere around 1950, a similar group of people sat around discussing what the impact of “this television thing” would be on radio news. We may be at a similar juncture.

While orchids' majesty is best experienced in the daytime, their exotic mystery is best sensed in the evening.

The Bride of Frankenstein, as all classic horror and monster fans know, is the 1935 sequel to Frankenstein, directed by James Whale and starring an ethereal Elsa Lanchester in dual roles as the Bride and Mary Shelley, and Boris Karloff as the Monster. Why? Because the Monster demanded a mate!

More consumption is moving to social media platforms, making it harder and harder for brands to build relationships with their consumers and make a profit from content distribution. This all means that marketers need to get creative, embrace the content shifts and follow the yellow brick road, wherever that might take us.

The change in ownership of a locally influential but definitely local paper is big news, even in the age of the decline of newspapers, because of the vast sums of money its new owner spends in the political arena.

All this media attention on killers and terrorists is merely giving food to the monster that doth mock the hand that feeds it.

All lives matter – ALL lives – and it’s about time the media embraces that fact and proves it by the stories that are covered.

When was the last time you got to attend a brainstorming session with the president of a country?

You wouldn't know the music business was in crisis from the number of press releases Blogcritics receives every day. Unfortunately, far too many of them aren't doing their subjects any good.

"The one or two times I've gone off course is when I began to believe that there was only one right way to create art, and there isn't."