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Charles Benaiah

Charles Benaiah is the CEO of Watzan, a techy company for medical media. When he’s not running a media company, he reads about media, thinks about it, pull out what’s left of his hair dealing with it, and then he writes about it over on UnCharles. Follow him on LinkedIn by clicking or tapping here.

The Los Angeles bureau of CNN. (Photo by Matthew Keys for The Desk)

Viewpoint: CNN and the journalism sausage factory

The defamation trial involving CNN, its star host Jake Tapper and American veteran exposed how the American news hot dog is made.

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Charles Benaiah
The Google logo appears on the side of a building in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Lee-Sean Huang)

Viewpoint: Is the DOJ’s request that Google spin off Chrome pointless?

The DOJ's request that Google spin off Chrome might actually do more harm than good to small publishers who rely on ads and traffic.

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Charles Benaiah
Google holding a press conference in front of a bunch of reporters. AI-generated image.

Viewpoint: The recent failures of Google Search reveal its imposter syndrome

Google's algorithm changes were meant to be "helpful," but wound up negatively impacting small publishers — including us. Charles Benaiah suggests this could be Google's big undoing.

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Charles Benaiah
"Next Stop Paris" is the first original series produced by TCL TV Plus Studios, and features voiceover actors providing dialogue for AI-generated characters.

Viewpoint: Can you spot the Parisian hub?

TCL is using real voice actors to record dialogue for AI-produced characters. Why didn't the company go all the way?

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Charles Benaiah
A stock image of a broadcast tower.

Viewpoint: TV companies will always find a way to circumvent regulations

Charles Benaiah argues that local marketing agreements between TV stations stand as proof that companies will always try to find a way to circumvent the rules.

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Charles Benaiah

Viewpoint: Why Roger Goodell is the next Brandon Tartikoff

"The NFL is so important, its scraps are like saffron," Charles Benaiah writes.

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Charles Benaiah
(Graphic by Charles Benaiah via unCharles/Substack)

Viewpoint: Remoting is futile

"Owning what’s on is big media, big tech, big data, and big money."

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Charles Benaiah
(Courtesy photo)

Viewpoint: Hey, what’s the big idea?

Charles Benaiah: "I grew up wanting to be Brandon Tartikoff. To me, he was a genius."

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Charles Benaiah
Various home screens for streaming audio platform Spotify. (Courtesy image)

Viewpoint: Flushed! An open letter to Spotify’s Daniel Ek

Spotify gets 30 percent less now from each user than they did in 2016. They’re still asymptotic to profitability.

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Charles Benaiah