ALEX CAMPBELL'S TUMBLELOG

Fair enough, Wendy. We all know how annoying those intrusive journalists can be!

“Isaac Osei, who owns a taxi fleet in New York City with his wife, is also a Ghanaian chief who wears a crown and oversees five towns.”

- An African Chief in Cabby’s Clothing, The New York Times

newyorker:

In this week’s issue: George Packer on the McChrystal debacle; Ken Auletta on Afghanistan’s first media mogul; Tad Friend on Steve Carell; Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma; Rebecca Mead on playgrounds; James Surowiecki on financial illiteracy; Sasha Frere-Jones on Robyn; James Wood on David Mitchell; Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield; David Denby on “Knight and Day” and “Winter’s Bone”; fiction by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; and more: http://www.newyorker.com/

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Make up your mind already Fairfax.

In Retrospect - Executives on How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong - NYTimes.com

fluffynotes:

MR. LEVIN I used to think at the time it was a clash of cultures and a misreading of the dot-com bubble, but I now upon reflection believe that the transaction was undone by the Internet itself.

I think it’s something that no one could have foreseen, and to this day, whether Apple is going to dominate entertainment or whether Amazon is going to dominate publishing, all the old business plans are out the window. How do you get paid for content? And the consumer has access to everything and now it’s going to be on a handheld device, so what I call the rolling thunder of the Internet started actually to eat its own, which was AOL. AOL was the Google of its time. It was how you got to the Internet, but it was using some old media business ideas that were undone by the Internet itself, and that’s why Google came along.

MR. PARSONS The business model sort of collapsed under us, and then finally this cultural matter. As I said, it was beyond certainly my abilities to figure out how to blend the old media and the new media culture. They were like different species, and in fact, they were species that were inherently at war.

In Retrospect - Executives on How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong - NYTimes.com

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I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by [Fox News president] Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to. Rupert Murdoch’s son in law Matthew Freud, quoted in yesterday’s New York Times.

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The old way of thinking in an agency was that you had a good copywriter and a good art director and they could conceive of and create anything that the agency did. TV, print, direct mail - they all had that particular reductive skill, that messaging skill. It’s not true now. There isn’t one set of talent that can do everything in our agency. R/GA chief creative officer Nick Law on lessons from 2010

I love this photo! What better symbol of the decline of old media and the rise of new media? Yes, that’s Anna Wintour perched in the front row between the bloggers. (via this New York Times article)