As savvy as Diller is, I think he is still stalled in the 90’s thinking that “we will print/post it and they will come and read it.”
With so many choices now available for the rest of us, Tina Brown snark has a very limited audience.
It’s all about the distribution system, and that’s all its ever been about.
“Its all about the distribution system, and thats all its ever been about.”
Sure. Used brontosaurus-sized printing plants are now a dime-a-dozen, while a distribution system like Newsweek’s would be prohibitively expensive to build from scratch, but exactly what printed material do they expect to distribute for a profit?