Marty Kaplan

Marty Kaplan

Entertainment executives are fond of saying that no matter what happens with technology, what will always matter most is good storytelling. What they don’t say — but what they’ve begun to wonder — is whether those stories may be on the way to becoming loss leaders and if the content business is quietly being transformed into the data. . .
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Opinion: Tim Tebow Is Jewish

“Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?” That was the headline last week on a blog posted by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane.. . .

Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Opinion: Campaign colonics

What did I miss? For seven days I didn’t have salt, meat or CNN. My mornings began without “Morning Joe” or “Morning Edition”; I saw. . .

Monday, December 12, 2011
Marty Kaplan: Newt winked at me

Did you see how Newt Gingrich kept winking during the Dec. 10 Republican debate? I’ll bet you $10,000 I’m the one he was winking at.. . .

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Opinion: Warning -- Political ads make you stupid

This is the disclaimer that Britain’s Public Interest Research Centre recently proposed for inclusion on billboards:. . .

Monday, November 14, 2011
Opinion: Keeping up with the Kandidates

"Are you not entertained?" That was Jon Stewart’s response to Rick Perry’s brain freeze. He said it twice, maniacally. “Are you not. . .

Monday, October 31, 2011
Opinion: How Occupy will end

No one knows what difference Occupy Wall Street will turn out to make.. . .

Monday, October 17, 2011
Opinion: Obama-Romney 2012

Forget the fantasy of Hillary Clinton taking Joe Biden’s place on the 2012 ballot. Not only because it is not going to happen. The theory that. . .

Monday, October 3, 2011
Opinion: Occupy K Street

It’s premature to give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Occupy Wall Street kids. But it also may be too soon to blow them off as clueless hipsters. . .

Monday, September 19, 2011
Opinion: Letting animals vote

You look terrific. Have you lost weight? Are you working out? You’ve got this glow about you. I bet you’re in love. Wait -- you were. . .

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Opinion: How did this happen to America?

It was while I was explaining to an Australian student that Rupert Murdoch was the reason America had gone batty that I realized how inadequate my. . .

Monday, July 25, 2011
What story is the Murdoch story?

Following several days of coaching by lawyers and PR experts, it must have been really rattling for Rupert and James Murdoch when show time arrived. . .

Monday, July 11, 2011
The “Obama’s brilliant strategy” theory

If you voted for Obama, here’s what you’re not supposed to be thinking:. . .

Monday, June 27, 2011
Marty Kaplan: Pessimism is the last taboo

If you pay attention to the news, the prospects for the future look grim.. . .

Friday, May 27, 2011
If Bachmann and Palin Weren’t Pretty

I wonder how much airtime Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) would get if she didn’t look the way she does. I wonder how much of Sara Palin’s political. . .

Friday, May 13, 2011
Don’t count on it

Please don’t run a countdown clock on the debt ceiling.. . .

Monday, May 2, 2011
Our friend Pakistan and other mental pretzels

On the same day that Americans are test-driving the idea that Osama bin Laden lived on the outskirts of Pakistan’s West Point, undetected, for six. . .

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The naked Nielsens

The metrics are wearing no clothes. How would you react if you found out that the basis of your business model was bogus? That’s the nightmare. . .

Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Naked Nielsens

The TV business is built on advertising. Except for premium cable, the money that networks get for selling audiences’ eyeballs to advertisers is. . .

Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear chair in entertainment, media and society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.  Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com. Monday, April 4, 2011
Moses, media piracy and the MPAA

If only people understood why they shouldn't do it, then they wouldn't do it.. . .

Monday, March 21, 2011
The more you watch, the worse you feel

As if the triple whammy of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster weren’t enough to enthrall and terrify us, the war in Libya is now. . .

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Al Jazeera English vs. The Charlie Sheen Channel

“This is strictly a business decision,” a Comcast source told Rupert Murdoch’s Web site MarketWatch about whether Comcast, the biggest cable. . .

Monday, February 21, 2011
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Streets

The power has gone out in a typical American town. Wait -- it’s not just the electricity. The phones don’t work, either. Portable radios are. . .

Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Mitt Romney’s “South Park” primary

Egypt makes Mitt Romney look good – at least compared to other Republican presidential hopefuls.. . .

Wednesday, January 26, 2011
My favorite blowhard

I owe Keith Olbermann for enabling me to identify with Bill O’Reilly’s fans.. . .







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