After a bit of a production delay, we are pleased to report that the paperback edition of “No Time To Think” is finally available online and in bookstores for 2010!!!

As a hardcover, “No Time To Think” has gotten many favorable critical reviews and is already being read in public libraries and universities all across the United States–indeed, the world!

So, if you have not had an opportunity to read it as yet, we invite you to purchase a copy online or at your local bookseller.

It’s almost here!

The paperback edition of No Time To Think will be available September 1st, 2009 at book stores and on the Internet.

Of course, you can still get a hardcover copy if you wish.

No Time To Think–THE Media Book For 2009—and beyond!

If you enjoyed No Time To Think in hardcover…or heard about it but never got around to buying a copy, than this news is for YOU!

On September 1, 2009, No Time To Think by Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman, will be available in stores and online as a paperback edition.

Of course, if you  are more the hardcover type, you can still get hardcover copies of No Time To Think.

Nice to have the option, though!

Nice mention in today’s Sunday Times of London for No Time To Think by a well known and respected Irish writer and commentator, Terry Prone. Check it out!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk:80/tol/news/world/ireland/article5907936.ece

No Time To Think  co-author Charles S. Feldman was a guest today on one of Ireland’s most popular news and current events programs–The Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM out of Dublin.

Good discussion that included a well known media critic and analyst about the book and how it relates to media in Ireland…apparently, a lot!

http://www.radioireland.ie:80/lastword/lastword.html   Click on The Last Word Monday 6p hour 9/3/2009

                                                                                          Interview starts about 10-15 min from top

http://audio.todayfm.com/audio/20090309180010.mp3 If above does not work, try this mp3 file

The co-author of “No Time To Think” will be speaking before a group of broadcasters at the annual “Radio & Records” Talk Radio Seminar.

Charles S. Feldman will be addressing what is described as the “largest annual gathering of news and talk radio executives, programmers and talent.”

This year, the event is being held at the Marina Del Rey Marriott in Los Angeles.

Feldman will speak from 9-9:45 am on Saturday, March 14th.

“No Time To Think” is written by Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman and has received glowing reviews in the U.S., U.K and Australia.

Some recent developments in the life of No Time To Think–

A noted investigative British paper, The Camden New Journal, in a highly favorable review, calls No Time To Think a “significant new book.” Review is by Gerald Isaaman, an iconic newspaper editor in the U.K.

And, NTTT is having an impact down under as well. Mark Day giving it a good review in the February edition of the Australian Literary Review.

No Time To Think, by Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman, is sparking discussion and debate across the U.S. and across both the Atlantic and Pacific.

Last week, Howard Rosenberg, co-author with Charles S. Feldman, of No Time To Think chatted it up with nationally renowned radio talk show host Paul Harris on powerhouse KTRS in St. Louis.

Harris can also be heard over WHAS in Louisville and WLS in Chicago, among other places.

Click on the Paul Harris link above to listen to a podcast of Howard’s interview and then take the time to order a copy of No Time To Think right from this website or pick up a copy at your local bookstore.

Famed radio talk show host Jim Bohannon welcomed Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman to his nationwide broadcast on Westward One stations

Good questions from listeners and a host well versed in the book, No Time To Think, make for a very informative and entertaining show.  Check it out.

Great news from across the sea. No Time To Think was a smash hit with the august Times of London in a review that could only be called–terrific!

And, making this review that much sweeter is that the reviewer clearly read the book! You’d think that would be SOP for a book reviewer, but I can assure you it is not.

Meantime….

The KRON-TV controversy  (see post below) is still raging. Rosenberg and Feldman will talk about it some more on a national radio show Thursday night ,and it was clearly on the mind of a well known San Francisco radio host, Peter Laufer when he had Rosenberg and Feldman as guests on his show this past Sunday morning, January 4th, 2009

And,  it was part of a two part interview with Rosenberg and Feldman which  was conducted by Scott Butki on Newsvine.com

MORE TO COME…..

When KRON Channel 4, a San Francisco television station, opted to boot Rosenberg and Feldman from a planned visit to a weekend talk show because the News Director there didn’t want to have on authors whose book, in part, takes a critical look at television news, it ignited a firestorm that is still raging –outrage being expressed by commercial, private and even some academic websites and blogs.

The first to report the story was LAObserved, a widely read and well respected blog that many in the L.A. media turn to learn the scoop of what is really going on in the City of the Angels.

And, as they say (not sure exactly who, but they do say it!) “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”  It didn’t take long for that post to either be picked up by others or else motivate others to post their own opinions and comments–from a daily San Francisco free paper, to the website of the Los Angeles Times, to the blog of a well respected San Francisco press association, to an academic blog—-just a few who have weighed in on this story…with more promised later on!

Proof that No Time To Think is THE media book for 2009!

Some other links below:

http://www.lostremote.com:80/2008/12/30/kron-cancels-on-authors-of-tv-critical-book/

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/12/kron_cant_stand_criticism_bags.php#more

Click the image below for full size.

Rosenberg and Feldman were interviewed on KTLA-TV’s “Pacesetters” program with Ray Gonzales a few weeks back.  The video is now available online, but unfortunately there isn’t a way to link to the episode directly.  If you go to this page and scroll back to the 11/30 episode in the flash player, you can find it divided into three parts for your viewing pleasure.

And on the audio side of the spectrum, WMLB out of Atlanta have made their interview with Rosenberg and Feldman available as a podcast as well.  Simply go to this page and click on the two links on the right under “Multimedia” to listen to the mp3 files.

Before Barack Obama got elected President, there was much talk about a Clinton “dynasty” had Hillary Clinton beaten him.

The truth of the matter is–the Clintons never have been a dynasty in any conventional usage of the word. The Kennedys, on the other hand, are practically the dictionary definition.

Comes word that Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of J.F.K, is expressing interest in taking over Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat once Clinton formally resigns following her presumed confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State.

Besides her dad, one of Kennedy’s deceased relatives, Robert, was a New York Senator before running for the presidency. Her uncle Ted is….well, uncle Ted, one of the longest serving and most influential Senators in the body.

But here’s a way to really tell who belongs to a true political dynasty and who does not: Some are already saying Kennedy doesn’t have the experience needed for the Senate…never held an elective post. The fact that that probably will not make one bit of difference is proof positive that she is very much a part of an American dynasty.

A sad day for the newspaper industry and for the people of the communities served by papers belonging to the Tribune company which filed for bankruptcy protection earlier today.

Of course, the odd thing is that even with the downturn in the economy and, for the newspapers, advertising, the Los Angeles Times, the Tribune’s trophy paper, continues to actually make a profit. Yet, it is being dragged down by the weight of the debt of the parent company which has forced layoffs and other drastic cutbacks at the paper.

What happens now is unclear. Technically, the chapter 11 filing would give the Tribune Company time and space to reorganize….But it might be for the best if the LA Times were cut loose and sold as a stand-alone entity.

Charles S. Feldman was interviewed on BBC4’s Today Programme alongside Kevin Bakhurst, controller of the BBC News Channel, and surprisingly they found quite a bit of common ground on the current state of news-gathering and distribution as well as the direction we are headed in the future.

Click here to listen to the segment.

Elsewhere around the blogosphere…

• A fascinating and harrowing consideration of the role that 24-hour news might have played in last week’s atrocities in Mumbai can be found here.
• A writer for a student newspaper shares some thoughts here.
• Beth Mellor has blogged some thoughts about the interview on her blog.
• And Etan Smallman has some thoughts on his blog as well.