Mike Pouraryan
Anyone wants to buy a Magazine?
The State of Media and the change continues to fascinate me. It has been during my sabatical that I saw the unfortunate news that Newsweek was put up for sale by the Washington Post, Newsweek's current owner.
I was saddened by the News. Newsweek has done some wonderful work in analyzing and understanding the world we live in. Some of the investigative work being done by the Newsweek team has truly helped to excuse waste, fraud and abuse in Government.
I hope that someone can step in to save this venerable institution so that it can be an effective contributor to the debate. The need for the center seems to be ever more. Even the Washington Post, Newsweek's current owner, is moving more towards the so-called right with recent conservative hires--including the neo-con supremo Bill Kristol. McGraw Hill got rid of Businessweek for $ 1. Bloomberg picked it up. Hopefully Newsweek won't suffer the same fate.
The challenge to those of us New Media Practitioners is to somehow figure out how to bridge that gap and fill the vital center that seems to be missing ever more as politics becomes ever more polarized and ever more radicalized. What I do know is that people want principled, reasoned analysis and a way to the future. That continues to be my challenge as I contemplate "outsiders".
I was saddened by the News. Newsweek has done some wonderful work in analyzing and understanding the world we live in. Some of the investigative work being done by the Newsweek team has truly helped to excuse waste, fraud and abuse in Government.
I hope that someone can step in to save this venerable institution so that it can be an effective contributor to the debate. The need for the center seems to be ever more. Even the Washington Post, Newsweek's current owner, is moving more towards the so-called right with recent conservative hires--including the neo-con supremo Bill Kristol. McGraw Hill got rid of Businessweek for $ 1. Bloomberg picked it up. Hopefully Newsweek won't suffer the same fate.
The challenge to those of us New Media Practitioners is to somehow figure out how to bridge that gap and fill the vital center that seems to be missing ever more as politics becomes ever more polarized and ever more radicalized. What I do know is that people want principled, reasoned analysis and a way to the future. That continues to be my challenge as I contemplate "outsiders".
