On September 25, 2009
Of Tosca, Telephones, “TRL” and Times Square
Advertising Week in New York — in addition to being exhausting — is often a chance to see the high and the low of our media-saturated culture in one fell swoop. So, during the week, I witnessed Martha Stewart, Mark Cuban, New York Times’ digital chief Martin Nisenholtz and even Ashton Kutcher all opining on the state of media and advertising at various panels. But the most telling five minutes came not inside one of the many venues staging events, but in a brief walk to the subway through Times Square on Monday night. For me, Times Square is a particularly good place to compare-and-contrast how media has changed, as during much of the 1990s, I worked at 1515 Broadway,…
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