Do blogs threaten the continuing relevance of journals of opinion?
My children and younger people say I don’t get blogs. Well, here’s what I do get. I do get the point about interconnectivity and the possibility of an exchange that you could never have before. That’s very important. Two, people say blogs are going to replace magazines. My view was, and still is, that the relationship of the Internet to print is not the relationship of silent movies to talking movies, which put the silent movies out of business, but more like the paperback to the hardcover book. It extends the audience for the product, rather than replacing it. I really liked the section of the book where you attend the Owners, Presidents and Managers program at Harvard Business School. Your fellow managers approached the Nation as a case study and recommend that you “liquidate” the magazine’s “goodwill,” and essentially reap a financial harvest from the history of your brand. Do you think it would be possible to start a publication like the Nation today, from scratch, without that acc
