4 posts and columns on Howard Beale

The Stylings of Hulu Head Jason "Jerry Maguire" Kilar Over the Years

in News on February 4, 2011 at 10:43 am PT

After reading Hulu CEO Jason Kilar’s most excellent recent blog post taking aim at how television and cable companies (i.e., his bosses) deliver and the follow-up piece by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka (“Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?”), BoomTown had an intense feeling of déjà vu. That’s because–even though what he wrote put the knickers of the Hollywood/New York bigwigs who own the premium video service into a series of ever more painful knots–it is a variation of things Kilar has been saying for quite awhile now.

The AP Tries a “Truthiness” Approach: “We’re Not Talking to Google” Means “We’re Talking to Google”

in Media on October 9, 2009 at 1:41 pm PT

Associated Press CEO Tom Curley told a group of journalists this week that his company isn’t talking to Google about renewing its licensing deal. But they have been talking for months and talked again this week.
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AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn

in Media on April 6, 2009 at 2:01 pm PT

The Associated Press is fed up with… the Internet, apparently. And it’s going to do… something about it. At the news-gathering co-op’s annual meeting today, AP chairman Dean Singleton let rip a sort of hellfire-and-brimstone speech in which he announced the AP’s vague plans to stop unnamed scoundrels from making money from their work. Unstated but obvious public enemy number one: Google.
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Video: Jon Stewart Goes Howard Beale on CNBC

in Media on March 5, 2009 at 3:29 am PT

Sometimes Jon Stewart uses his platform to explain new technology, like Twitter or the Kindle, to his audience. And sometimes he uses it for a trenchant media critique. Or, as in the case of last night’s segment on CNBC, not so much a critique as a full-fledged evisceration.
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