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What...does the NYT have a good sports page I'm unaware of or something? I haven't seen evidence of good journalism from the rag of choice in quite some time.
This article is dead-on. I’ve been modeling the media universe this way for a while. The media barons, from Pinch to Rupert, are the last of the analogue age news barons. Sic transit gloria mundi.
The television media has its own multi-millionaire employees; aka *talent*.
One would think that Chrissy, Keith O, Katie and a few others could combine their net worth and buy a newspaper, or a TV channel.
They clearly lack the entrepreneurial spirit by not investing their money where their mouths are. Just sucking at the teat of the capitalist pigs they denigrate. Cowardly cretins.
When the Propaganda Machine (i.e. the “Mainstream Newsmedia”) finally collapses, the so-called “journalists” and others who produce current propaganda will find themselves pushing mops and lawnmowers if they’re lucky.
it’s called “killing the goose that lays the golden eggs”
which is exactly what we’re doing.
Nonsense.
The WSJ has kept increasing circulation since Murdock took over, and it's now the biggest circulation newspaper in the country.
” Let's face it, there is no strategic need for the Journal to get into a local-reporting turf war with The New York Times”
Oh yes there is. A WSJ managed by Murdoch can whip The Slimes in any war anytime.
“(this is really more about Murdoch's grudge match with the Sulzbergers),”
Grudge match with the Sulzbergers?
Over what?
The Sulzbergers empire is already dying, even as Murdoch's Fox News continues to soar from triumph to triumph.
“Billionaire investment banker Bruce Wasserstein was just 61 when he died last fall after being admitted to the hospital with an irregular heartbeat.”
So what? Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone is over 83, and still as strong as ever.
Who is the idiot who wrote this article anyways?
He is praying for Murdoch to die early so his precious New York Times doesn't get any competition?
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a conglomerate today! ;-)
LOL, that is so funny! The reason people are taking their money and heading for the hills is that instead of being admired for running a paper, magazine etc. people HATE, LOATH, and DESPISE the media. Why pay to have someone spit on you?
“You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in... 60 years.” - Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941)
This buy is a lefty idiot who seems to think that the only good news is left-driven news. He thinks Pinch Sulzberger is a great guy.
What’s interesting is that even a moron like this can see the handwriting on the wall. What happens when all those wonderful, good-hearted billionaires like Pinch die?
End of the line. And what happens to Advertising Age when there are no longer any newspaper people around to read it to pick up the latest ideas in newspaper advertising? (At least that’s what they used to do—I haven’t seen a copy of Advertising Age for maybe 30 or 40 years, since the Golden Age of advertising died a quiet death.)
I didn’t expect this to be stated in print in “Advertising Age.”
Wow.
This is where I stopped reading.