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...Curse of the Mogul, Jonathan Knee, Bruce Greenwald and Ava Seave say the biggest problem with media companies is the moguls, who have been seduced into believing that content is king, bigger is always better and talent - especially their own - is irreplaceable. So blinded are they, they have mismanaged their companies and shareholders have suffered. Co-author Knee, director of the media program at Columbia University and an investment banker with Evercore Partners, weighs in on the next big media deal, the treachery of the Internet and why the movie business sucks. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...future of the media smaller? I hope the future of the media is smarter. The largest media companies are genuinely conglomerates in the old-fashioned sense of the word. They are made up of, in many cases, well over a dozen very different businesses that have nothing to do with each other, and many of those businesses are facing very serious and fundamental threats to their well-being that require significant management attention, and management attention is the most scarce resource at any company. I think the right answer is for these businesses to get more focused. That's generally...
...Your book suggests a lot of the mistakes the media have made are because of the moguls. Media moguls are a little like investment bankers, and I say this with humility. Investment bankers always have No. 1 market share because they only count the deals that they do. Similarly media moguls look like geniuses because they only talk about the deals that went well. The best example of that is when [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch bought MySpace - and it's rumored Tom Freston lost his job [as Viacom CEO] over not buying it - everyone talked about MySpace...
...such a tough environment to play in. Now a number of folks say "Well, look, Google gave them $900 million in an ad deal for something they only paid $580 million for. How can that be bad?" And the answer to that is: Given that Fox Interactive Media group, of which MySpace is a part, actually lost money this year even after the short-term Google ad-deal windfall, $580 million doesn't seem like such a bargain. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Sohn spoke compellingly of the nonprofit organization she founded with other cast members of “The Wire”; “ReWired for Change” works “to empower young people living in the most underserved communities across the country through education, media advocacy, and street-based intervention,” according to its website. She described working with communities in South Carolina in the run-up to the 2008 election, using the power of celebrity to urge the disaffected to use their vote. “We’re trying to make...