Bob Thompson
Bob Thompson
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What's going to be very interesting in '08 is how they adapt using the lessons that they learned from this one with regard to not only these problems, but also something else, which was actually a bright spot - their coverage of the Olympics through nontraditional media was actually very encouraging. They got a lot of Web-site hits. There were a lot of people consuming these Olympics one way or the other over the Internet and on high-definition television.
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These bridges are all going so fast and I missed them. They are soon going to be gone and they are a part of our history.
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The whole point of those (segments) is to leave a heap of carnage. That is a game that is really hard to win, even when you're one of the good guys.
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Five might be one broadcast network too many.
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Of the nine people killed in crashes during the 2004 New Year's holiday, six, or 67 percent, were involved in alcohol-related crashes.
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I've met more than my share of troubled families who got that way because of gambling. It is difficult to break that compulsion.
We don't have a choice. That's the way it is.
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You can decry this as a crime against literature or accept it as the way of the world, but the fact remains: Selling books is about more than just talent and luck. It's about marketing.
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Here's this guy with a self-consciously bad haircut, but he's worth more than the GNP of many nations, ... With his success, it's become clear that geeks will inherit the earth.
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We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.
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Plus, the response from Sept. 11 was a lot different. You had (government officials) out there with a sense of control and authority, despite what we saw in 'Fahrenheit 9-11.' Here, the complete lack of authority immediately becomes the type of stuff that comedians are great at doing.
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One of the things the board has to do is be nimble. They have to be able to turn on a dime. Being able to be nimble and responsive is going to be one of the primary characteristics of the board.
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When you have a new law like that put into effect, the public focuses on the issue, maybe drivers and people think a little more about their drinking habits.
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This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.