Andy Warhol was exaggerating only slightly when he made his now infamous statement: “In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes.” Of course Warhol made that pronouncement in 1968, long before the Internet era. And he was prophetic except for the fact the information age gives everyone 15 nanoseconds, not minutes, of [...]
Politics Daily Capitol Hill Bureau Chief Patricia Murphy appeared on Fox News on Sunday to discuss the growing role of the internet in politics, including Republicans’ recent edge over Democrats in social media. Click play below to watch the segment: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com More articles from Colin McDonald »Print FacebookTwitterDiggAIME-mailMobile @import url(http://cdn11.surphace.com/widgets/sphereit/css?siteid=politicsdaily2&v=8);Related [...]
Internet Brands, an Internet media company, said Monday that its board had agreed for the company to be acquired by Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners in a $640 million deal. Shareholders in the company will receive $13.35 in cash per share, a 46.5 percent premium over the stock’s close on Friday. The deal, which still [...]
Back in the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Lycos was one of the first major Web brands. After being acquired by Terra Networks for $12.5 billion in 2000 and then by Daum Communications in 2004 for just $95 million, it has now been sold to Ybrant Digital for less than half that, at $36 [...]
Politics Daily Foreign Policy Correspondent Sarah Wildman appeared on a American Institute for Contemporary German Studies podcast to discuss the influence of culture and domestic politics in news coverage in different countries and the impact of the internet on the media landscape. Click here to listen to the podcast. View the Original article
Five Politics Daily staffers — Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady — are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, “Beyond The Killing Fields.” In today’s essay, Schanberg [...]
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