Michael Wolff
Television Is the New Television
The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
Portfolio, 2015
What's inside?
Television still dominates mass media and will continue to rule.
Recommendation
Media insider, best-selling author and founder of the Newser reporting website, Michael Wolff dissects potent, widely held myths about digital media. He maintains that digital media have not displaced the power of television, are not shoving it aside now and won’t in the future. Wolff is an insightful, convincing agitator who writes in punchy, thought-provoking sentences. His stand-alone chapters work as polemical essays, so you don’t have to read them in order. Almost every chapter is interesting and features a somewhat shocking, commonsense obliteration of popular wisdom, though some chapters fall short of making a cogent point. getAbstract recommends Wolff’s overview of the state of big media – and not just television, as the title implies – to everyone in that industry, everyone who interacts with media, and everyone who writes about them or invests in them.
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About the Author
Best-selling author Michael Wolff also wrote Burn Rate and The Man Who Owns the News. He co-founded the news website Newser.
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