News to Use 11.18.2007b
Online Comedy Business Booming [Variety]
In the months since Dane Cook first mounted his groundbreaking MySpace marketing campaign and SNL’s “Lazy Sunday” skit helped vault YouTube to a billion-dollar Google buyout, online comedy sites have become as common as bad party jokes.
Redstone: “If Content is King, Copyright is its Castle.” [Forbes]
Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone dug at Yahoo! and vigorously defended copyright while making the keynote speech at Dow Jones and Nielsen’s Media and Money conference in New York. “If content is king, copyright is its castle,” he said. “Copyright compels creativity, it furnishes the incentive to innovate. If you limit the protection of copyright, you stifle the expression of self.”
Report: Advertisers Jump to ‘Net [NYPost]
After lagging for years, the nation’s biggest advertisers are now leading the charge online, a new report suggests.
The Internet is Making Us Stupid [Salon]
Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of fracturing political discourse in the digital age.
TMZ: Cleaning Up by Dishing Dirt [BusinessWeek]
TMZ.com now brings in 10.5 million unique U.S. visitors a month, dwarfing its entertainment-news rivals. It is now ranked No. 5 among all news sites, besting all nonportals save for CNN and MSNBC.
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