Welcome to our weekly Watch List. A mashup of news and media-related developments that bear watching for how they’ll affect life and culture as we know it. If we find something not yet on your radar screen, all the better.
Here’s what’s up.
Riddle Me This
Altice placed so much emphasis on the ‘highly competitive’ marketplace that is the New York metro region we couldn’t help but scratch our heads as to why. Especially since the majority of us have but two choices when it comes to cable, while others — such as within the Town of Brookhaven — have a choice of Cablevision or nothing. It’s almost as puzzling as putting an investment banker in charge of it all. Or, is it?
Humans At Work
Disheartening: Newsrooms looking to use AI to produce copy in an effort to reduce overhead (aka humans).
Patch Takes Manhattan
Patch just hired up three editors to put out seven all-new Manhattan hyperlocal news editions, servicing such areas as the Upper East and West sides, Downtown and Central Park.
Mamas, Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cyber Security Analysts
Protecting your identity, your phone, your country, your car’s GPS, the nation’s power grid and more is a rapidly growing industry, with a current unemployment rate of — get this — zero.
Hot Enough For You?
CNN, WaPo, HuffPo, ABCNews and a few others are trying to fact check what spews from speakers’ mouths as quickly as sound travels at the GOP Convention. We admit to a particular preference for Politifact’s style of scoring: True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False and yes, Pants on Fire! False. Check it out to see who’s earned the right to spontaneously combust.