"I choose the Kardashian as a unit both because [...] Kardashian is an exemplar of attention disconnected from merit, talent or reason."

"Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen."

Get ready for 20 seconds of unskippable warnings before you can watch a DVD.

When anything changes, the mainstream media asks, "What can go wrong, and how can we use this to scare soccer moms?"

It turns out, people's DVD watching habits are totally different than their streaming habits.

Moonves to Jobs: "You know more than me about 99 percent of things but I know more about the television business."

Just like Gmail scanning your email to serve you relevant ads... but in audio form.

"But what, I ask, about your great-great-great-grandchildren? What do they get?"

The Chicago Sun-Times ends the practice of endorsing candidates in political races and bans their executives from contributing financially to campaigns.

In a move that reeks of desperation, Warner Bros. announces that Netflix subscribers won't get new releases until 8 weeks after DVDs are available.

Pretty good exclusive content deal, I'd say.

"Warning: Journalist hiding their own opinions by using phrases like 'some people claim'."

Media literacy is essentially non-existent in America today: "Roughly half the US population doesn't know the media is supposed to be trusted as a public watchdog."

"First of all, most Americans seem to think that there isn't much propaganda here, think that they can spot it when it does appear, and quickly dismiss anything they don't agree with as 'bias'. It never occurs to them that what they perceive to be 'common sense' is actually a pile of concocted junk."