Bloomberg Friday November 18, 2022
Media companies are having their worst year in three decades, notes Bloomberg, with TV networks losing viewers and advertisers at an alarming rate while streaming services are hemorrhaging billions of dollars. The rate of cord-cutting has accelerated dramatically in the past few years—cable companies are now losing close to 10 percent of their customers a year—and TV ad sales slipped 4 percent in 2019 and 12 percent in 2020. The pullback in advertising has also hurt the big tech firms like Meta and even TikTok.
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Politico Friday November 18, 2022
“Donald Trump, the defeated, twice-impeached former president facing mounting legal and political peril, on Tuesday night at his private club in Florida announced that he’s running yet again,” notes Politico, adding that the Trump aesthetic “has always been a mask, a glitzy, gaudy cover for his angry, brawling approach.” That made the event a perfect venue for Mark Peterson, one of today’s foremost photographers of the political scene and the actors who perform in it (just look at his book Political Theater).
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DIYPhotography Friday November 18, 2022
Product delays have affected Canon gear (as they have most camera manufacturers); the company recently updated a list of products you’ll have to wait for. The good news, notes DIY Photography, is that Canon doesn’t mention 6-month+ waits in the list, as they did in March, and there are far fewer products on it than this time last year. The list includes new items, though, like the EOS R7 and the EOS R6 Mark II. Canon says it is shipping in order but may take longer to deliver than usual.
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David Schonauer Friday November 18, 2022
Paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Seurat became the focus of the art world on November 9 when Microsoft founder Paul Allen's collection of masterpieces went on sale at Christie's New York. Among
the 60 artworks that sold for $1.8 billion--a record for a single owner sale at auction--was photographer Edward Steichen's 1904 image of New York City's Flatiron Building (printed in 1905), which … Read the full Story >>
