William M. Hartnett

I finally got around to checking out onBeing from The Washington Post, and I’m loving the first few offerings. The packaging, obviously, is slick as hell. Beyond that, I was prepared to be bored. Every attempt I’ve seen to tell similar stories in print has been snooze-worthy, but the short video format changes everything. What [...]

>Monkeying with feng shui (LA Daily News)
I’m outraged not by the Los Angeles Zoo’s $4,500 expenditure on a feng shui consultant while building a new $7.4 million enclosure for three “blue-faced monkeys with flowing California blond hair,” but by the fact that we Floridians allowed such an admirable confluence of fiscal wastefulness and mystical nonsense [...]

>Gannett buys UCF student newspaper (Orlando Sentinel)
Coming in the wake of its purchase of the FSU student paper, I can conclude only that the for-profit off-campus student-run public university newspaper is a played out segment of the media acquisition market. My proposal: For-profit high school newspapers. I, for one, would have fully embraced the Gannett [...]