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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Is the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

So then, what do you think of the Comcast NBC-Universal Deal? There are parts of the combination that seem to make obvious sense. Including a bunch of fixed costs that you can spread over a big cable company. However, it is, at a minimum, intriguing that the CEOs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

That's also why the folks who own the formats for game shows or soap operas are better off than those who make Friends. Because when it becomes a hit, all the money has to be handed over to the stars.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

But a lot of those homes won't wind up being repossessed, right? In a normal market, probably a majority of homeowners that wind up being delinquent or even in the early stages of default find a way to cure their loan. Right now the numbers aren't quite as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: The Outlook for Home Foreclosures | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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