Jimmy Kimmel Talks About His Newborn Son's Open-Heart Surgery, Entire Internet Tears Up
Posted in: UncategorizedAd Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Tuesday, May 2:
I’m going to skip the preamble today because you’re probably here for that Kimmel story — in which case, skip ahead to No. 6, below. (But do yourself a favor and also check out No. 7.) Anway, let’s get started …
1. The ill-fated Fyre Festival — now subject of a $100-million class-action lawsuit — has become the Edsel of music festivals. At Bloomberg News this morning, Polly Mosendz and Kim Bhasin serve up “The Inside Story of How Fyre Festival Went Up in Flames” (subhead: “Sexy ads with supermodels? Check. Food, lodging, and security? Not so much”). And over at Vanity Fair’s The Hive, Nick Bilton, who sums up the festival as “Lord of the Flies dystopia meets social-media hysteria,” has a delicious post headlined “Exclusive: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody.” The presentation, he writes,
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