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Matt Lauer torpedoes the Today Show brand
Matt Lauer Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 29 November 2017 Matt Lauer torpedoes the Today Show brand Well, look out Good Morning America! The two male anchors for the other morning network shows – Matt Lauer of Today and Charlie Rose of CBS This Morning – are...
Fox News ratings dip, others rise. A lasting trend?
Fox News ratings Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 20 November 2017 Fox News ratings dip, others rise. A lasting trend? The other cable news networks envy the Fox News ratings but a tide might be turning. Ratings for the cable news network leader are dropping 12% in...
End of the American Century
American Influence. Declining. Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 12 October 2017 End of the American Century I was thinking about a book, written by a friend of mine entitled The End of the American Century. The author is Steve Schlossstein (yes indeed 3 Ss), a...
Put the CNN retraction in context, please
CNN retraction Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 27 June 2017 Put the CNN retraction in context, please Dammit. I can see where this CNN retraction of a story concerning a Donald Trump confidant leads. Now, all those who believe mainstream news sources are fake news...
The Fox News brand changes for the better?
Fox News brand Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 19 June 2017 The Fox News brand changes for the better? What’s your opinion of the Fox News brand? I assume it depends on your political leaning. Those on the left believe the network is overly biased to the right....
Fox News, fire Bill O’Reilly – he damaged the brand
Fox News and Bill O'Reilly Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 5 April 2017 Fox News, fire Bill O'Reilly - he damaged the brand When does a brand get fed up with a spokesperson? I’m thinking of this concerning the Bill O’Reilly sexual harassment claims. What does it...
The New York Times runs ad, takes on lies
The New York Times runs ad, takes on lies Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 27 February 2017 The New York Times effort is a direct reaction to Trump Other than Envelope-gate, the Oscars unveiled something truly extraordinary last night. The New York Times ran a TV...
Facebook lies. Lies, lies and more lies.
Lies on Facebook Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 24 February 2017 Facebook lies. Lies, lies and more lies. All too often Facebook lies. I'm not talking about the Facebook company. I'm speaking of the content. If you read my blog at all then you know the world of...
Online news has become un-newsworthy
Online news has become un-newsworthy Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 14 February 2017 Ultimately, though, it's because of us, the readers Is there anything taking more of a branding hit than the media? I think not, thanks to the lunacy of alternative facts and...
Alternative Facts and Newspaper Rebranding
Fake News and Alternative Facts Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 9 February 2017 Alternative Facts and Newspaper Rebranding Alternative Facts and fake news are the new headlines. (Read a blog I wrote on fake news here.) The White House has created a new genre of...
Fake News. Survivalists. No thank you.
Fake News and Survivalists. I'm Scared. Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 26 January 2017 Fake News and The End of Everything Survivalists have always seemed on the outside looking in to me. Fake news and alternative facts never seemed really dangerous to me. But I...
Sears and Macy’s. Going Out of Business.
Sears and Macy's. Already dead. Sears and Macy's. Going Out of Business. Are Sears and Macy's in the throes of a death struggle? The problem with Sears and Macy’s won’t be solved with store consolidation, liquidation or closures. And the problem is bigger than those...
The US brand. What is the United States of America?
The US brand. What is the United States of America? Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 29 November 2016 The US brand. What is the United States of America? The US brand is under siege. Is anyone else worried about the future of the US? I don’t mean in terms of which...
Galaxy Note 7 fire hazard disaster
Samsung is on fire Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 13 October 2016 Galaxy Note 7 fire hazard disaster The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall because of the Galaxy Note 7 fire hazard has me thinking. What if any long term effect could this Galaxy Note 7 fire hazard have...
Politically ignorant generation of sheep
Politically ignorant generation of sheep Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 28 July 2016 The news industry is not doing us any favors The word ignorant gets its root from the word ignore. Someone who is ignorant is someone who ignores. Because we ignore, we are...
MSNBC and its lack of brand personality
Love it or hate it, Fox News has a brand and that’s the single reason why it leads in the cable news ratings by a large margin. With news that MSNBC will shake up its primetime lineup to jump start its lagging ratings, it would behoove the network to think less about...
Flipboard has changed this blog
Flipboard has changed this blog Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 24 February 2015 Flipboard is my go-to in the morning I always find it interesting how the patterns of our life evolve into new patterns. My job, as a brand guy, is to take notice of those patterns...
The State of the CNN network
The State of the CNN network Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 22 January 2015 I won't watch CNN again I tuned into Tuesday’s President’s State of the Union Address and found myself totally disappointed. Not in the speech itself, that value judgment depends...
The fallout from Rolling Stone
The Fallout from Rolling Stone Rolling Stone and the University of Virginia Can a publication that’s been around for 47 years be permanently harmed by one article? Can a movement be doubted because of the mistakes from that article? Those are the questions I’m asking...
Online advertisers have stepped on a landmine
Online advertisers must understand context Tom Dougherty, CEO - Stealing Share 20 November 2014 Online advertisers have stepped on a landmine Remember when advertisers influenced TV content? Probably not. We have been in a free for all for years when TV advertising...