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Boring and bland are symptoms of a disease
Roger Black on the Newspaper Disease: What is needed is a fundamental restructuring of the newspaper business. And it has gotten too late to expect the inmates to redesign the asylum. It’s going to have to be done by the proprietors. Willful, single-minded, near-genius proprietors like the ones who built the business. … Newspapers have…
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Many voices owned by few
Barry Diller on media consolidation: “The conglomerates are like the Rothschilds funding both sides in the Napoleonic wars, They are on both sides of virtually every transaction.” — Forbes “Landscape of Giants,” May 8, 2008
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A clear picture to the future
Eric Berlin: Here’s what we know: people are online, they watch video online, they spend money online. Therefore, video producers and advertisers are going into overdrive to figure out a model that works. Mark Cuban quoting (I think) Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research: Ironically, we are headed down the same self-destructive road for other kinds…