Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

William Durant and General Motors Tommy Thomason’s Pew Report is good news and bad news for community journalism William Durant didn’t like automobiles. Durant, who was in the carriage business in the 1890s, thought cars were smelly and noisy, not to mention downright dangerous.  But he realized that automobiles, as distasteful as he thought them to [...]

An industrial giant in bankruptcy Jack Shafer’s “How Condé Nast Is Like General Motors,” in Slate Although the privately held Condé Nast isn’t as financially distressed as the bankrupt General Motors, and although the magazine business couldn’t be more unlike the car business, the two distraught companies share woes. Both succeeded in segmenting the market [...]