Re:The pursuit of digital readership at the New Republic
by kbenson on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:28PM
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> The article itself shows that new leadership made poor decisions
The article is also careful to couch all those problems in the context of the wider industry. And so we found ourselves suddenly reliving recent media history, but in a time-compressed sequence that collapsed a decade of painful transition into a few tense months.
> Those are poor choices in a dwindling market, and show the relative youth and inexperience of the leader.
Yes, but how poor they are is defined by how deep his pockets are and how willing he is to pay for them. And for more than a year, he was willing to spend with abandon. Were his choices the downfall of the company as it previously existed, or did they just hasten the transition?
The article is also careful to couch all those problems in the context of the wider industry. And so we found ourselves suddenly reliving recent media history, but in a time-compressed sequence that collapsed a decade of painful transition into a few tense months.
> Those are poor choices in a dwindling market, and show the relative youth and inexperience of the leader.
Yes, but how poor they are is defined by how deep his pockets are and how willing he is to pay for them. And for more than a year, he was willing to spend with abandon. Were his choices the downfall of the company as it previously existed, or did they just hasten the transition?