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Old 11-12-2009, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Katie Couric seems to think so.

Here's the link to Forbes...
Katie Couric Picks The Seven Most Powerful People In Media - Forbes.com
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Old 11-13-2009, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Downtown
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Katie Couric seems to think so.



Here's the link to Forbes...
Katie Couric Picks The Seven Most Powerful People In Media - Forbes.com
The self-congratulatory "stories" and wishful conclusions that come out of these SF-centric publications make me laugh.

Answer: No. SF is not and will never be the media capital.
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Old 11-13-2009, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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The self-congratulatory "stories" and wishful conclusions that come out of these SF-centric publications make me laugh.
Forbes is a SF-centric publication? That makes me laugh.

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Answer: No. SF is not and will never be the media capital.
LOL....well apparently its become a major force in the industry. Who knew?
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Old 11-13-2009, 08:19 PM
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"Media" is a charitable term; it's all entertainment

Largest individual shareholder in Disney (LA's most valuable entertainment co.) is Mr. Jobs (from his sale of Pixar to Disney)

Most of entertainment industry is HQ'd (in terms of owners) in Manhattan, with a bunch of >>60yo Luddite codgers like Murdoch, Redstone, Diller, etc who can barely use a cell phone (check out what '90s phones they use; it's amusing stuff), let alone understand Net/email

Reality is far more IQ and wealth resides/works in Woodside or PaloAlto/Menlo than any of the classic Luddite places for entertainment industry crowd like BH or Manhattan
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Old 11-13-2009, 08:21 PM
 
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The self-congratulatory "stories" and wishful conclusions that come out of these SF-centric publications make me laugh.
That's funny. What makes me laugh uncontrollably is reading a New Yorker's remarks where they're taking issue with self-congratulatory stories. Or even the concept of being self-congratulatory LOL. Oh, the irony. I can't think of a single place in the world that could even qualify as a decent runner-up to being as self-congratulatory as New York.

Sorry NYC, you are great but you are NOT the "center of the universe" as some of you would love to believe, and other places excelling shouldn't threaten you so. LOL.
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Old 11-13-2009, 08:24 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Forbes: The 7 Most Powerful People In Media
1 Sergey Brin & Larry Page
Founders, Google(Google also owns YouTube)

2 Julius Genachowski
Chairman, FCC

3 Arianna Huffington
Co-founder, The Huffington Post

4 Jory Des Jardins, Camahort Page and Lisa Stone
Founders, BlogHer

5 Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist

6 Biz Stone and Evan Williams
Founders, Twitter

7 Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Facebook

http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/09/goo...hisSpeed=15000


5 are Bay Area people. Grain of salt obviously but still, interesting.
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Old 11-13-2009, 08:26 PM
 
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Katie Couric seems to think so.



Here's the link to Forbes...
Katie Couric Picks The Seven Most Powerful People In Media - Forbes.com
Its crazy. This topic sounds pretty far fetched, but given that print newspapers seem to be on life support right now and the internet has become the #1 source for media info nowadays, there might actually be something to this. I wouldn't single the Bay out as the "Media Capital" quite yet, but it is the capital of what is becoming the most important form of media. So it does qualify as a co-capital in a way.
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Old 11-13-2009, 08:31 PM
 
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Forbes: The 7 Most Powerful People In Media
1 Sergey Brin & Larry Page
Founders, Google(Google also owns YouTube)

2 Julius Genachowski
Chairman, FCC

3 Arianna Huffington
Co-founder, The Huffington Post

4 Jory Des Jardins, Camahort Page and Lisa Stone
Founders, BlogHer

5 Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist

6 Biz Stone and Evan Williams
Founders, Twitter

7 Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Facebook

http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/09/goo...hisSpeed=15000


5 are Bay Area people. Grain of salt obviously but still, interesting.
I agree, this is interesting. Of course I predict a swift hater bombardment as a result of posting something positive about SF/the Bay Area as there is nothing more that angers some of these tools than trying to shed some light on things out here, but it comes with the territory. Thanks for posting.
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Old 11-13-2009, 09:03 PM
 
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Bay Area is most definitely a high tech media capital. But media (to me) also means publishing, tv studios, radio, film production, etc. NY has a lock on that simply because it's been around for so long.

Los Angeles used to be the Entertaiment Capital of the the world, (And SF too for a time back in the 60s and 70s aka American Zoetrope and the hippy movement) but due to high taxes and other government regulations, all that stuff is being farmed to Vancouver or overseas... California is not really the state to give incentives to companies to want to develop.

Of course, ILM is all over the Presidio, that's pretty significant in itself.
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Old 11-14-2009, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Downtown
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"Media" is a charitable term; it's all entertainment

Largest individual shareholder in Disney (LA's most valuable entertainment co.) is Mr. Jobs (from his sale of Pixar to Disney)

Most of entertainment industry is HQ'd (in terms of owners) in Manhattan, with a bunch of >>60yo Luddite codgers like Murdoch, Redstone, Diller, etc who can barely use a cell phone (check out what '90s phones they use; it's amusing stuff), let alone understand Net/email

Reality is far more IQ and wealth resides/works in Woodside or PaloAlto/Menlo than any of the classic Luddite places for entertainment industry crowd like BH or Manhattan
LOL, another poor delusional soul from the Bay Area with small-man's complex. More IQ and wealth in pedestrian Woodside/Palo Alto than Manhattan? I literally LOL'ed at that one.

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That's funny. What makes me laugh uncontrollably is reading a New Yorker's remarks where they're taking issue with self-congratulatory stories. Or even the concept of being self-congratulatory LOL. Oh, the irony. I can't think of a single place in the world that could even qualify as a decent runner-up to being as self-congratulatory as New York.

Sorry NYC, you are great but you are NOT the "center of the universe" as some of you would love to believe, and other places excelling shouldn't threaten you so. LOL.
You also show signs and symptoms of delusions. New York City is not and has never been the "center of the universe", who said that? A bunch of tourists/wide-eyed newly minted transplants from places like SF? Me bringing you back to reality re: this silly delusion of grandeur that the Bay Area is media capital (because Katie Couric said so! ..even though she really didn't) shouldn't be misinterpreted as Bay Area bashing. I just live in a place called reality.

You seem blithely unaware of the term media. To the enlightened, not strange, borderline hyper-geek-freaks with an apparent social disorder like poster "hsw" who would probably be an outcast outside of he/she/it's Geeks of Silicon Valley "scene" - media encompasses things like radio, film, publishing, television, not just "tech" and San Francisco clearly is no media capital.

New York threatened by San Francisco? What's next, threatened by Dallas, Minneapolis? If anything, New York should feel somewhat threatened by London and a few Asian cities, but San Francisco? LOL, wishful thinking... how cute. Sort of reminds me of this:




Inspiration is nice and all, but let's not go overboard.

Last edited by CL63; 11-14-2009 at 12:20 PM..
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