Quotable: May 2007 Archives
. . . I think news is a unique opportunity still. But what is happening is that everyone is cutting back individual news operations rather than partnering to ramp up. Consumers dont need more brands, they need more indepth reporting of more stories.
-- Mark Cuban on Blog Maverick
Read the whole thing. Classic Cuban!
Tags: newspapers | TV | Mark Cuban | media convergence
... lots of folks are writing off (print) newspapers. But at this moment of their seeming weakness, relationships with them are paradoxically in very high demand among the Internet bellwethers.
It’s completely ironic. But maybe not. As soon as Yiddish was pronounced a “dead language” there was a huge surge of interest.
Tags: newspapers | Internet companies
On the changes wreaking havoc on the newspaper industry:
"The truth is, the world has changed in a significant way. I don't know that Joseph Pulitzer or William Randolph Hearst or E.W. Scripps could do much about that"-- Warren Buffett, Bershire Hathaway Inc. shareholders meeting on Saturday, May 5, 2007.
(via Sudan: The Passion of the Present)
Tags: newspapers | Warren Buffett
