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:
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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.