In an observation that should surprise no one except a few cave-dwellers, a new study from NATPE/Content First and the Consumer Electronics Association has found that millennials find Netflix subscriptions more valuable than broadcast and cable subscriptions. There are, however, some useful insights to be gleaned if we look a little deeper.
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Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
New CBS Streaming Service Reflects Rapidly Changing TV Market
Hot on the heels of the announcement of a new streaming service from cable channel HBO (reported here last week), broadcast TV giant CBS has begun a standalone streaming service to deliver CBS programming.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
HBO Streaming Announcement Is Good News for All Entertainment Consumers, Not Just HBO Watchers
Acting on plans reported here a month ago, entertainment channel HBO has decided to end its thirty-plus-year dependence on cable and satellite distributors, announcing it will offer an online streaming video[…]
Misguided Attacks on Suburbia Undermine Essential Values, Affront Critical Voting Bloc
Writing in The Orange County Register, the distinguished urbanologist Joel Kotkin notes that many conservatives are now “waging a war on middle-class America” through their support for trendy progressive “smart growth” policies. Such policies are the stock in trade of an urban planning movement that has been in power for about a quarter-century now, promoted by certain business interests (aka rent-seekers) in a coalition with elitist progressive politicians and upper-class and aspiring-upper-class cultural snobs.
Apple’s New Security Policy Is Great News for iPhone, iPad Users
Apple Corp. last night announced that it is implementing a new security protocol that will make it impossible for the firm to turn over users’ personal information to government agencies, or anyone else. This is great news for users of Apple products, and one hopes that the other major phone and tablet operating system providers—notably, Google and Microsoft—will quickly follow suit.
The Origin of Specious Thinking: Public Schools
Writing in Canon and Culture, Prof. Colin Garbarino of Houston Baptist University poses an interesting and accurate critique of the common notion that the nation’s colleges and universities indoctrinate a generally conservative or at least politically and culturally neutral incoming student population into advanced progressive leftism and political correctness. They do impose such an agenda, he notes, but the overwhelming majority of students they are indoctrinating have already heard and adopted its fundamental premises upon arrival.
Don’t Fear the Data-Reaper?
Two articles today show how the Internet economy tends to be like the overall economy but much, much faster. Innovation is faster, the rise of new companies is faster, and maturing and death of those firms is likewise faster than in the industrial and service sectors that preceded it and remain in place beside it.
Economics · Featured · Politics
Hillary’s Literary Flop: Another Reason for Democrats to Hate Free Markets
Hillary Clinton’s memoir, Hard Choices, has failed the one test even the Obama White House cannot rig (or simply chose not to do): book sales numbers. Although the legacy media have commonly characterized sales of her book as lukewarm so far, the numbers are significantly worse than that, considering her name-recognition and public prominence.
Economics · Government · Liberty · Random
Giving Thanks for the Right to Retail
Retail stores are opening even earlier than usual for their annual Black Friday sales this year, in an intensifying competition for scarce consumer dollars. Big retailers such as Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Best Buy, Sears, and Toys R Us will open Thursday night and feature “doorbuster” bargains to lure tryptophan-laden customers into their emporia (if they can fit through the doors).
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
The Real Lesson of Detroit: Change or Die
Competition between geographic areas continually undermines the viability of corrupt, monopolistic jurisdictions.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Taxes
Heavy-Handed IRS Tactics Exemplify Progressive Mindset
Here’s a very revealing item for those interested in understanding the progressive worldview: the Internal Revenue Service has been accused, in addition to its many malfeasances already revealed, of asking[…]
McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming
Sen. John McCain wants to “let” cable and satellite TV customers buy their pay channels on an a la carte basis. That is certainly an option many customers would like to have, but McCain’s bad idea is to use the heavy hand of government to make it happen.
Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
A Defense of Loan Sharking
Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK has produced an excellent essay dismantling the British government’s announced plans to cap the interest rates on personal loans. “Loan sharking” strikes[…]
A Century of Milton Friedman
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, who played an indispensable role in making the case for market freedom and individual liberty in[…]
Karnick at TAC: Confiscatory Democracy Confirmed Again in Court’s Obamacare Decision
[First posted at The American Culture.] Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act vividly highlights a basic cultural division in the contemporary United States. One might well call it[…]
Economics · FIRE · Politics · Taxes
Indiana Gov. Daniels Supports Boehner Debt Proposal
Statement from Governor Daniels regarding Speaker Boehner’s debt proposal “I hope the Indiana Congressional Delegation will support Speaker Boehner’s proposal. The terrifying, nation-threatening debt levels caused by past and present[…]
Attacks on Bachmann’s Husband Just Latest Example of the Double Standard of Contemporary Political Rhetoric
Political rhetoric in the United States has always been feverish and low on scruples. That’s the nature of democracies. Yet there has arisen a new atmosphere in the past decade,[…]
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