“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
–Niccolo Machiavelli
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Rally in support of the people of Iran. Try to make it – this is important. (I can’t, I’m up in Breckenridge for a wedding I must attend.)
from reading what is coming in it sounds like it is moving toward open warfare. If the regimes kills a lot of people they make every family an enemy. We’ll have to wait for more info to come out but I am afraid we will hear of many dead.
But I am also hopeful we will start to see the police and army start to step up and protect their fellow citizens.
The business world is one of new companies, with new approaches, constantly taking out the old guard that did not change with the times. Many of the top companies today didn’t even exist 40 years ago.
So why is it surprising that the large media companies, most of whom have not evolved in any significant way, are going out of business. They are facing the simple fact of a constantly changing market – evolve or die.
Andrew Sullivan makes a very good point about one of the significant self-inflicted wounds on the MSM.
That’s not Andrew Sullivan making the point, that’s Sullivan reposting Dan Froomkin’s explanation why he was fired by the Washington Post.
Froomkin’s column is here:
http://opiniojuris.org/2009/06…
Sorry, it was link to quote where that link had a link t the quote where that link had a link to the quote. But you’re right, it appears to be from Dan and I think the original post is actually at http://blog.niemanwatchdog.org…
Oh, I thought maybe you were trying to make a point different from the same one you’ve been making for the last six months. Evolve or die — sure, yeah, good advice.
Maybe it’s tilting at windmills but I keep hoping one of the papers will choose evolve over die. And you never know, with repitition maybe it will get through. That seemed to be what was required with my kids 🙂
“evolve or die” is not always good advice, either in biology or business. Some forms are well-enough-adapted to a broad enough range of contexts that trial is error, and staying the same is success (Coke Classic, shoe-lace tips, ball-point pens, sharks, to name a few).
News media probably do not fall into this category, and new forms will probably become dominant, rapidly. But, you know, just for the record….