Ford apologizes for ad with gagged, bound women
Ford India and a British ad agency have both apologized for what they said was an unauthorized ad showing three scantily clad, gagged and bound women in the back of Ford Figo compact car driven by a grinning caricature of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi. The tagline for the ad: “Leave your worries behind with Figo’s extra-large boot.”
7 companies Twitter should buy
- Timehop
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Remember when radio was the new hotness? (Neither do we, but it was. You know how it goes.)
CBS’ “World News Roundup” is turning 75, but it’s competing in a very different landscape than seven and a half decades ago — and it seems to both defy and embrace the Internet age. We take a look at some of the changes.
I drove back to our Aurora hotel where family gathered for a wedding, thinking how lucky my two children — Kristin, then 19, and Ben, 18 — were to grow up in Newtown, where violent crime usually meant teenage mischief-makers bashing mailboxes late at night. How wrong I was.
Gary’s a USA TODAY reporter who lives in Newtown. He was one of the first reporters on the scene last week and now reflects on the town: A week after shooting massacre, Newtown navigates Christmas.
Spin magazine ceases print publication
25 years in print — but now beefing up its digital presence.
Newsweek Global, as the all-digital publication will be named, will be a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context. Newsweek Global will be supported by paid subscription and will be available through e-readers for both tablet and the Web, with select content available on The Daily Beast.
Tina Brown & Baba Shetty on the Newsweek of the future. (via newsweek)
Here’s to hoping Tumblr’s a big part of that strategy.
In which our media columnist, Michael Wolff, makes his view of CNN very clear:
CNN, the news network that nobody likes, or watches or can fix, is looking for a new CEO.
Even if you actually believed you could fix it, it’s far from clear that anybody would want you to. Although the network is an embarrassment to everybody who works there, as well as to the industry as a whole, it still, confoundedly, makes tons of money — in part because it is so unfocused and ineffectual.
It’s the dim and pointless yin to MSNBC and Fox, the sharp and pointed yang. CNN is every cable system’s beard. You couldn’t have the rancorous networks people really watch without the cover of the middle-of-the-road pallid one whose ratings sink ever further.
The rest of the column: http://usat.ly/R0PIfy
A friend remembers Nora Ephron
Next, Nora fixed me up with Michael Fuchs, then CEO of HBO. He picked me up at my office with a car and driver and took me to a cocktail party hosted by Woody Allen’s cinematographer Dharius Khondji. Fuchs worked the room while I clung to the baked Brie for dear life.
Coming home in the limo after an expensive Italian dinner in the West Village, he fell asleep, his head slumping onto my breasts, his open water bottle dribbling onto my leg and into my handbag.
“Mortifying,” I hissed to Nora the next day on the phone.
“No, material!” she countered, laughing. “It’s great! People love to hear bad stories that happen to other people.”
Material was one thing I was struggling for as a writer in my 20s. I was also searching for my voice, when all I wanted was Nora’s.
More: A friend remembers Nora Ephron, by Melina Bellows.
Five hundred years worth of YouTube video is being watched on Facebook a day.
