2007:  

ESPN, Mayo Clinic Team Up To Implant HDTV-Ready Chips In Sports Fans' Brains; "The Ultimate In No-Screen TV" 

Trump Life Buys Martha Stewart Living, Shuts It Down; "You're Fired!" A Triumphant Trump Tells Martha 

Baby Born With Ear Buds; FDA Warns Pregnant Women On Heavy iPod Use

2008:  

Deal Of The Century: Time Warner Merges With Yahoo, ExxonMobil, Applebee's ; Wall Street Praises "Synergies"

 Ad Agencies Unveil Latest Strategy: Buying Rebundled Debundled Integrated Independent Organic Media

 Katie Couric Jumps From "CBS Evening News" To "Tonight Show on NBC;" Leno, Conan Forced Out

2009:  

Google Buys California, Idaho, and South Carolina in All-Cash Deal

Walter Cronkite Replaces Jim Cramer As Anchor of NBC Nightly News, One Week After Cramer's Head Explodes During Broadcast

Couch Potato Magazine's Circ Jumps 50 Percent; Men's Health, Self, Liposuction Eke Out Small Gains

2010:

Microsoft Secedes From U.S.; Bill Gates Declares "We Can Do Better On Our Own"

Slumping MySpace.com Retools Strategy, Relaunches As Web Site For Frisky Seniors

Better Homes & Garden Spins Off Garden, Buys High Times; New Title To Focus On Homegrown Pot

2011:

ABC's "Desperate Grandmas" Debuts As Top-Rated Show, Topping NBC's "Apprentice Death-Match" and Fox's "UnAmerican Idol"

eBay Accidentally Posts Names, Credit Card Numbers Of  60 Million Users; "Ooops!" Says Company Spokesman

 No Personnel Moves In Media Industry For Entire Year, First Time In History

2012:

Defying Critics, Shocking Themselves, Newspaper Companies Post Profit, Circ Gains After Restoring Newsroom Cuts, Improving Customer Service

YouTube Buys TV Guide, Des Moines Register; Execs Say "Old Media Not Dead, Has Future"

MTV Acquires Reader's Digest; Competitors Caught Off Guard

2013:

Supreme Court Allows Cable Companies to Broadcast Death Penalty Executions Live On Pay-Per-View

Magazine Launch Of The Year: Divorce Blows By Brides, Modern Bride, Ambivalent Bride In Readership, Ad Pages

People A Huge Hit In China, Maxim Still Struggling in Middle East; Cooking With Eminem Folds

2014:  

FCC Fines Howard Stern $10 Million For Obscene Remarks On PBS; Stern Buys FCC   

Digestible Newspaper Pill Recalled After Readers Break Out In Hives

Martha Stewart's Gerontology Buys Trump Life, Shuts It Down; "The Donald is Dead!" Declares Martha

2015:

Corporate Marketers Embrace Human Billboards; Product Placements on Face, Hair Generate Street Cred, Strong ROI

After Rise In Indecency, Latest Payola Scandal, Congress Votes To Return AM/FM Radio Stations To Public; Citizens Retake Control Of Airwaves

Britney's Fifth Marriage A Big Yawn At Newsstands; New Husband Cruise Doesn't Help Single-Copy Sales

2016:

Oprah Wins 2016 Presidential Election; John Kerry Loses For Fourth Time In A Row

Large Ad Agencies Join Together To Renounce All Forms of Advertising; "We No Longer Know What Works," Says One Exec

New England Journal of Medicine Reports Most Americans Glow In Dark Due To Excessive Cell Phone, PDA Usage; New Poll Says Consumers Don't Care

Randy Siegel, the President and Publisher of Parade Publications, is the author of Google 2084, which was originally published in The New York Times.

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