Westward Ho
I'm off to Las Vegas for some research at HD Expo, the hospitality design (hotels, restaurants) trade show. Then I'll go on to L.A., on the way to Santa Barbara to help moderate a panel of big shots discussing media concentration and media bias. Regular blog readers will not be surprised to learn that I don't think concentration is the most significant source of media bias--but I do think that believing in the power of media concentration keeps journalists from asking rather critical questions about business. That hurts business coverage. A lot. Think AOL Time Warner.
The panel features Bill Keller, executive editor of the NYT, Lionel Barber, U.S. managing editor of The Financial Times, and Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate. Ann Louise Bardach of UCSB and Slate is the co-moderator and organized the panel. For more information, go here. (Don't ask me why they decided to leave my primary affiliation--as an author of books--off the main page and omit my main job at Reason; both are on the press release. I guess blogging is more glamorous. Besides, the main page gets Bill Keller's job wrong.)