Aram Zucker-Scharff

““The bundle is the Gibraltar of the media business,” said Tim Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,” a history of media revolutions. “It keeps the entire ecosystem alive, which is why it is so heavily and successfully defended. But there are hairline fractures beginning to appear, and you are seeing alliances shift.””

– At NYT, David Carr explains why the long standing ‘bundle’ system for delivering advertising on many platforms (especially cable TV) is now failing and why the consequences for TV may be immense. 

““19% of prime time television characters are non-human while only 17% are women”” – A Profile of Americans’ Media Use and Political Socialization Effects: television and the Internet’s relationship to social connectedness in the USA ― …

The Wachowskis will be producing a Netflix series written by J. Michael Straczynski. It will apparently be techno-thriller-y. I want that. Now.

The Huffington Post’s story on the Jeff Zucker/Starting Point mess at CNN (and I say ‘mess’ because at CNN it’s always a mess) manages to miss the point pretty well. 
They may move a decent (for CNN) journalist to their morning…