Cynthia B. Meyers

Media & advertising historian, #brandedcontent past & present; author of A Word from Our Sponsor and forthcoming Sell-e-vision: How the Ad Industry Shaped TV

[Cynthia B. Meyers @AnneHummert]

My guest post at Continuous Wave is up! "When Actors Did the News" is about 1930s radio show March of Time--includes lots of audio clips! https://t.co/KcYz0qKMxB

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@MichaelSocolow More evidence I am not crazy for being scared when I walk through parking lots! RIP

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@faris Brainstorming!

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I have been happily using DuckDuckGo for years now and strongly recommend—you’ll like it!

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Looking for the anti-Google? Join the flock.

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@davidzmorris But integrity matters—the fact that it doesn’t matter to others doesn’t change my citation practices 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@chrisyogerst @SethAbramovitch @TomDohertyfilm I’ve been saying things similar to what Ellroy says here: I’d argue it’s revisionism to call anti communism a moral panic when Stalin had spy networks deep in US institutions

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@MichaelSocolow Maybe audiences are different today—more cynical?

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@anecdotal I always advised students just the opposite of that: I would suggest they find the good professors and take their courses, no matter the specific topic. If the professor is good, they will learn something. A bad professor will wreck a student's interest in a subject.

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@MichaelSocolow True--the boundary between grammar fixes and actual drafting has vanished. Perhaps we should reconsider the meaning of "authorship" and "attribution" once the majority of "authors" are collaborating with robots to produce texts?

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@notjessewalker In college I wore a Mao jacket without any sense of what it meant—it was sold in groovy shops (was a nice cotton jacket though)

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YouTube has long helped finance creators' production directly--this article implies this is a new thing. What has shifted is who has been financed and for what--seems like more traditional genres are winning out https://t.co/kqjhBcV7qS

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@RrjohnR Link didn't work for me!

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A clearer analysis is @digitalshields piece about how much more traditional the YouTube upfront is looking https://t.co/tyVjHIQNF9

[Cynthia B. Meyers @AnneHummert]

YouTube has long helped finance creators' production directly--this article implies this is a new thing. What has shifted is who has been financed and for what--seems like more traditional genres are winning out https://t.co/kqjhBcV7qS

[Cynthia B. Meyers @AnneHummert]

"You want to see this war won— and won quickly. You want to see it carried to the enemy with a vengeance. Just remember that the meat you don't get-and the coffee and the sugar that you don't get—are up at the front lines -fighting for you. Would you have it otherwise?" (1943)

[Cynthia B. Meyers @AnneHummert]

"You want to see this war won— and won quickly. You want to see it carried to the enemy with a vengeance. Just remember that the meat you don't get-and the coffee and the sugar that you don't get—are up at the front lines -fighting for you. Would you have it otherwise?" (1943)