[Vision Thing]

It's too late, of course, but the leftists will continue to denigrate Free Republic and bloggers because they know their monopoly is just about over.

In this opinion piece by Tina Brown, she equates new media to the startups of the Internet-bubble era, and the old media to the staid, stately conglomerate companies. She doesn't exactly say it, but I think she's hoping the new media will suffer the same fate as the Internet startups.

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In this opinion piece by Tina Brown, she equates new media to the startups of the Internet-bubble era, and the old media to the staid, stately conglomerate companies. She doesn't exactly say it, but I think she's hoping the new media will suffer the same fate as the Internet startups.
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Same thing jumped out at me.
Bad analogy.

[ModelBreaker]

She doesn't exactly say it, but I think she's hoping the new media will suffer the same fate as the Internet startups.

That's clearly her hope. The difference is: dot coms frequently relied on a business model that hypothesized that revenue and profits were no longer important--it was "eyeballs" or some other catch phrase. The crash was inevitable (and I said this long before summer of 1999).

But us FREEPERS don't depend on a business model like that. We do this because we like it. FR's business model is the people who use it support it. It is a sustaining model that isn't going anywhere.

Tina, we'll be around in 2006 and in 2008 and in 2010 . . . and in California and Colorado and . . . (insert scream here :)