Archive for July, 2004

Plugs pulled.

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

This was a black friday for folks who worked at the Time Warner 24 hour newschannels in Houston and San Antonio. Employees walked in today to find they were all out of a job, and the channel was signing off immediately.
Immediately!
As the designer of the logos for both of those channels, and as designer of [...]

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Ted’s beef.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

Ted Turner, my old boss, has written about how goverment and business collaborate to create fewer media voices.
It’s the story of the news business over the last twenty years, and it’s somehow reassuring to hear it expressed out of the mouth of the guy who built up something worth absorbing (as Time Warner did) and [...]

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