So I finish dinner with Richard Griffiths, get the latest lowdown on One Direction, hear how much they don’t do with old media, how they don’t want to overload their fans, and I get into the lobby of the London and check my Twitter feed… And it’s blowing up. Drake tweeted me. At 22:43, @Drake […]

Has she jumped the shark? By playing to everybody has she undermined her core country audience? Don’t trust the media. The media is there to be manipulated, it likes a story. Ergo, the election. If there’s no horse race, there’s no ratings. If everybody else is doing a story on Taylor Swift, then you should […]

1. THE INFECTION It’s either a song or a video, you hear it or see it and say to yourself I WANNA DO THAT! That’s what created classic rock in the U.S., everybody seeing the Beatles on “Ed Sullivan” and picking up instruments and playing in bands. The trappings always count. But they can never […]

Movies and MTV, they’re both in the dumper. Statistically and emotionally. We heard for a decade that digital photography was going to kill film, that Kodak was not prepared. But it never seemed to happen. Then, seemingly overnight, everyone had a digital camera and Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Just because the future isn’t here yet […]