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...April 20. An intrepid web surfer had rummaged through CBS' web site and discovered that among pictures of the cast members, a certain picture of Gervase (the lazy one) did not have a certain red X over his face. Winner? Saying it was probably a CBS-engineered red herring, I nevertheless passed it on to readers of this site last week. (As for the Gervase "red X" theory's merits, Inside.com reported this week that a CBS.com "mole" assures them it was just a test, and that he doesn't know who won either...
...gates. That bright shining myth we became so accustomed to over the past two years, the idea that you can make your millions simply by being at the right junction of Silicon Valley's Route 101 at the right time, no longer applies. Says Tony Perkins, editor of Red Herring magazine: "No one is going to become a billionaire in the Internet era without deserving it anymore." Or earning, through decades of turn and burn, an inescapable engineer gravity. The revolution is dead; long live the evolution...
...launch a successful magazine printed on dead trees about the Internet? Not so easy. Consider not only the minimum $15 million you'll sink into paper, printing, distribution and advertising before you see a single issue; consider the intense competition for your target market's eyeballs: Wired, Red Herring, Business 2.0, Internet Week, Yahoo Internet Life (plus TIME's sister publications, TIME Digital and FORTUNE's eCompany Now, set to appear in April and May, respectively). And all you've got is that tiny little space on the newsstand...
...Standard is not alone in benefiting from our e-crazy times. The $16 billion business-publishing market is set to reach $25 billion by 2003. The more established monthly Red Herring will break even for the first time this year. Its editor, Tony Perkins, doubts his younger rival can stay afloat if the money dries up. "We shouldn't assume dotcom advertising is going to be around forever," he says. "It'll be hard to sustain a weekly deadwood publication...
...herring worth addressing at the outset is the failure to distinguish between homosexuality and pedophilia, which creates a false parallel at the core of the Times' argument. A double standard would be in effect had the media ignored a situation where two gay men killed a straight man for being straight. But sex with children is a crime regardless of the sexes involved, and is not synonymous with homosexuality. Brown and Carpenter were roommates, and the details of their relationship have not been revealed, but evidence taken from their house - handwritten fantasy scenarios involving children, as well as diagrams...