Entertainment Media and the Internet, or, Why Billy Ocean Never Would Have Succeeded in this Day and Age

So last week we had the (extremely early morning) pleasure of attending a “Conversations on the Circle: Entertainment Culture Panel” held all the way up at the Time Warner building. The talk was part of the city wide internet week and featured moderator Scott Donaton (Publisher, Entertainment Weekly), Brett Bouttier (SVP, Digital, Warner Bros. Television Group), Mark Golin (Editor, People.com), Gillian Sheldon (Supervising Producer, TMZ.com), and Charlie Walk (President, Epic Records). The discussion, as most seem to these days, focused on how the transition of content from print to online is affecting the entertainment industry.