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Wolf Cries Boy! The Future Is Here! The Future Is Here!

2010-03-04T06:41:00.000-08:00

LINK WELL :> MEDIA POST/Media Daily News/

Erik Sass

Eric Newton Interview

2010-01-26T06:01:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> Philanthropy News Digest

McCormick Fields e=Editor Spawns Another ePUB Site

2010-01-13T16:20:00.000-08:00

e=Editor TimMcCormick

Chief Pencil Sharpener at McCormick Fields, fired up another blog site earlier today.

The Site listed as :>Tips For Travelers www.americanexpressdoesnotownthissiteyet.blogspot.com

will be a welcome addition to the McCormick Fields Family.

Fox Chief Rules Media Expressway

2010-01-10T14:30:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> NYT/ David Carr/ Tim Arago

Steve Outing Signs Out

2009-12-30T19:50:00.000-08:00

Link Well:> Editor & Publisher Magazine/ Steve Outing

The Vast Web-TV Divide/ NYT/ Brian Stelter

2009-12-03T23:48:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> NYT/Brian Stelter

Vivendi + NBC = [ ]

2009-12-02T14:28:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> Independent CO. UK

when television was young/ Philip Leigh

2009-12-02T01:43:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> Media Post/ OnlineVideoInsider/ Philip Leigh

Why Journalism Matters

2009-11-30T21:38:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> The Nation/ Erik Alterman

How to Save J our nalism

2009-11-30T06:08:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> The Nation/

John Nichols/ Robert W. McChesney

Tribune Moves Ahead---Philadelphia Pushes Away

2009-11-28T02:16:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> Media Post/ Media Daily News/ Erik Sass

Professional Courtesy Request

2009-11-26T05:41:00.000-08:00

The Reconstruction of American Journalism

2009-11-25T04:55:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> The Reconstruction Of American Journalism

Microsoft/NewsCorp Link-UP.....Oh

2009-11-24T07:29:00.000-08:00

I promise to do some serious postings on the initial reports that

PING and News Corporation are considering a sharp elbows alliance.

I am "hot frog hopping mad' at the very consideration of such a

link-up. So I will wait until I can get my humor mojo back before

I put anything out on the wires. Thank You For Your Patience. T=Mak

Oregonian=== Valued People=== Welcoming and/or Leaving

2009-11-23T07:31:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> New Publisher

:> News Hound Breaks Leash

Ignorance is a gateway drug to ________________

2009-11-20T10:42:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> Trib SWAMP

Join the New American Literacy Campaign

2009-11-16T07:29:00.000-08:00

:> weeklyICEcafe

Bloomberg's Global Reach

2009-11-15T10:41:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> New York Times/ Stephanie Clifford and Julie Creswell

:> Bloomberg.Com

2009-11-08T10:39:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> Talking Points Memo Article

2009-11-03T19:37:00.000-08:00

Link Well :> New York Times/ Eric Konigsberg/ The Onion

2009-10-29T19:13:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Tower Ticking/ Sam Zell

2009-10-28T16:51:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Institute for Economic Thinking

:> Innovative Thinkers

2009-10-26T11:25:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> New Oregonian Publisher

2009-10-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Media Post

2009-10-23T17:52:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Carle Cancer Center Article / NYT

2009-10-19T10:03:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Foundation Center

2009-10-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Internet Accuracy Project

2009-10-17T09:25:00.001-07:00

2009-10-16T10:35:00.000-07:00

2009-10-13T16:50:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Autism Support Network

2009-10-12T13:37:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> Times/ Fox TV Network

2009-10-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> NYT.COM/ Business

2009-10-10T14:47:00.000-07:00

Link Well :> deadline.com/hollywood

2009-10-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

Link Well:> nieman.harvard.edu

2009-10-05T11:06:00.000-07:00

View at thedailybeast.com/blogs

Scrappy Knights

2009-10-01T13:13:00.000-07:00

Sister Site Update

2009-09-29T13:38:00.000-07:00

Surf's Up

2009-09-29T10:52:00.001-07:00

2009-09-25T13:13:00.000-07:00

Keep a ready eye out for a new website featuring S.F. Bay area

news via the Bay Area News Project. Hearty minds and ample

funds are in play. Dial here and compare the upstart to spot.us .

2009-09-21T09:58:00.000-07:00

Think X 2

intelligencesquaredus.org

2009-09-14T12:44:00.000-07:00

On September 12, 2009 'The Knights of

the Front Page' initiated a new blog site

featuring the language of change as an

essential element for creating a care culture.

The Culture of Care

Please keep this site on your radar.

August Issue of weeklyICEcafe................... delayed until September

2009-09-01T14:51:00.000-07:00

Anticipate the next issue.

Preview: August Quest

2009-07-12T18:03:00.000-07:00

2009-07-06T09:51:00.000-07:00

2009-07-05T17:13:00.000-07:00

2009-06-14T16:13:00.000-07:00

Partial preview of May 2009 weeklyICEcafe

2009-05-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

Crusaders Welcome---- Capes Optional

2009-05-08T17:37:00.000-07:00

Sir Irving and the Knights of the Front Page have decided

to dedicate the next issue of weeklyICEcafe to the theme

of "truth, justice and the American way'"

otherwise known as:

crusading,

whistle blowing,

ratting on,

investigative reporting,

tilting at windmills,

putting body parts to the fire, etc.

The pending issue shall be cast as soon as the knights

get their pizza, and find ample graphic materials to shine

their armor, so to speak. This promises to be a "red letter

edition", what ever that means.

T=Mak

Sir Irving Ponders

2009-04-20T15:08:00.000-07:00

Best Newz Dot Net

2009-04-13T21:08:00.000-07:00

2009-04-10T14:25:00.000-07:00

Curtis never failed to serve

up a rousing rendition of

Lynard Skynard's 'Free Bird'.

2009-04-06T15:19:00.000-07:00

"O.K., now

how many

want that

with extra

cheese?"

Next Issue of weeklyICEcafe Will Be Out Soon

2009-04-04T17:38:00.000-07:00

2009-04-02T11:12:00.000-07:00

"You Want

Directions

From Me?"

"Should We Ask For Directions, Yet?"

2009-03-29T16:23:00.000-07:00

weekly ICE cafe Magazine Concept

2009-03-15T21:37:00.000-07:00

2009-03-12T17:11:00.000-07:00

2009-03-09T09:53:00.001-07:00

2009-03-08T18:03:00.000-07:00

Seven Steps to Salvation By William Powers

2009-03-08T14:19:00.000-07:00

To fully appreciate the article that William Powers

wrote entitled "Seven Steps to Salvation" you need

to see it's original context as one of several

articles on the Collapse of BIG MEDIA that were

featured in the Spring 2005 issue of The Wilson

Quarterly.

By context I refer both to the time, a full two years

before the Tribune purchase was gaining energy, and

place in regard to the placement of the featured articles

which were introduced as quoted here:

"Collapse is not too strong a word to describe what has

happened to America's major news media.

Stripped of their old economic and technological

advantages, befuddled by the changing character of their

audiences and and beset by new competitors, they are

reeling from the blows recent scandals have dealt to

their credibility and prestige.

Their old authority is gone, and with it, perhaps, their

ability to define for Americans a shared realm of

information, ideas, and debate. " TWQ page 39 ı

Bear in mind that this was a time period when some-

one preparing due diligence profiles for a major media

acquisition should have highlighted commentary of

this caliber.

With this perspective in mind, compare William Powers'

media recovery program Seven Steps to Salvation with

the nine Core Values that Sam Zell introduced to the

Tribune Company in 2008. Then ask yourself, what are

Sam's games?

W.POWERS' SEVEN STEPS:

1. RELAX

2. ENJOY YOURSELVES

3. BE NATURAL

4. DON'T PATRONIZE

5. MAKE TROUBLE

6. ONLY DISCONNECT

7. DON'T GIVE UP HOPE

TRIBUNE CORE VALUES:

Keep Your Word

Collaborate

No Surprises

Compete

Play Fair

Take Intelligent Risk

Reward Successful Performance

Question Authority

Serve Our Local Communities

As all of us participate in various roles

in the transformation of media. Maybe

we can all benefit from forgetting about

ranking, territory and stodgy rules and just

help each other enjoy our craft and the

entertainment that we produce.

Good luck on that.

### T=Mak

It Is Good To Be Here

2009-03-07T19:38:00.000-08:00

Most people who stumble on this particular blog will be particularly

unimpressed. And that's O.K., because all I needed was a resting

place to hold some of my pocket notes. Not the stuff that I need to

file---but the kind of stuff that will be rather hard to retrieve when

I want to share it with someone.

I called this Blogg-trail "Sam's Game" because I wondered what

possessed someone like Sam Zell to buy into a corporate entity like

the Tribune Company. I originally thought that the article written

by William Powers for the Spring 2005 issue of

The Wilson Quarterly Magazine might have

been the kind of thing that Sam Zell could

have kept with his pocket notes.

As a country cousin of one of the Tribune's past editors, I have

always had a soft spot for the Tribune and it's allied papers.

The TV stations---eh.

Tribune online and syndicate people have proven to be very alert

and responsive to the contacts that I have had with them.

During the past few years the folks in upper management

appeared to be very insulated from contemporary media culture.

Some how, I can not help but feel, that if The Tribune could

actually be organized as an employee run media company

there might be a vital heart pumping there.

The kind of heart that could provide enough

oxygen to feed the brain enough to actually

figure out complex issues like surviving

bankruptcy and developing an equitable

scheme for Tribune Tower car parking.

Good luck on that.

TRYING STUFF

2009-02-19T16:57:00.000-08:00

One of my big goals in life is to simplify.

To Do List:

Get rid of embellishment.

Communicate freely with shouting

silence (more white space) and second-look humor.

Experiment with a pdf/electronic paper

magazine format that tweaks

conventions.

This is where my concept for

weeklyIcecafe started.

Sam's Game

2008-05-13T13:02:00.000-07:00

Sam's Game

RULES: Old Guys Rule

New People Rock/or/Spin

New Rules: There are no

Stinkin Rules.

Just Suggestions.

Like Play Fair and Stuff.

Strategy Source::::::::::::

Wilson Quarterly;

Spring 2005;

pg. 54-59;

"Seven Steps to Salvation"

by William Powers.

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Official Byline: Marchase Thompson c/o Bullfrog News Services