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...conference was a great success, six days of purposeful activities and inspirational speakers, a gifted group of participants and a skillfully organized executive committee overseeing the whole thing. But lest you think this column is just an ad for the WLC (that's what my T-shirt is for), I wanted to write about the issues of feminism and politics raised in one of the speeches we heard, the keynote address by Marie C. Wilson President of the Ms. Foundation and of the White House Project. (She also helped create "Take Our Daughters To Work...
...that actually happened, of course, the mastodon would squash you flat. The Viacom-CBS deal is about translating media distribution into ad dollars, and in the current world, CBS's TV, radio, billboard and Web properties will make the new Viacom a promotional and marketing juggernaut. Viacom, says PaineWebber analyst Chris Dixon, "is clearly going to be on the cutting edge of any kind of ad spending that's being done across all media...
...biggest dogs on the block. What's more, predicting a paradigm shift based on a declining American appetite for ordinary TV may prove to be a fool's errand. Still, CBS's $36 billion price tag derives from its status as a network that dominates Madison Avenue's ad dollars, not as just another player in a new and unpredictable ball game. "The Web turns viewers into the programmers and the network," says Wagner. "That's what the revolution will be." In which case, whose heads are likeliest to roll...
...business motive behind these shows--and other new series with major teen characters, or spin-offs of teen hits (The Parkers, Angel, Time of Your Life)--is simple enough: success breeds imitators, and the large (about 31 million), fickle 12-to-19-year-old demographic draws ad money. But the economics alone don't explain the high school vogue, nor why the shows include a couple of the fall's better premieres. True, high school programs are still often mired in soap-opera plots--see the randy Manchester, whose early glimpses just miss so-bad-it's-good status...
...apparently, society no longer expects me to take this high road. Not only is there a national chain of laser-hair-removal stores, called Vanishing Point, that runs an ad with a woman touching only a finger-sized part of her otherwise hairless body, but--I've completely forgotten the end of this sentence. I'm stuck on that "finger-sized part of her otherwise hairless body" part...