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Wednesday, Jun 04
After Murdoch, The Deluge
Schonfeld used the public platform to announce some "breaking news": the launch of TechCrunch's new video site for entrepreneurs called "Elevator Pitches," where the startups can present themselves for ratings. Wolff didn't hesitate to profit from the event either, chatting up the November release of his Rupe biography. His comment on Murdoch's plans for the WSJ was, "Buy the book." The journos took a good look at their "own obsolescence" (Wolff) and argued over their individual relevance. Wolff and Carr were particularly punchy, while Roberts tried to keep the peace and Kelly used the words "camcorder" and "blog" in the same sentence, waxing nostalgic about the penny press. All in all, these guys didn't know much more about the future of the media than anyone else, making such groundbreaking observations as "newspapers need to reevaluate how they do news" (Kelly). Read the top 10 scathing remarks after the jump... Top 10 (Thank you, David Carr): 9. Schonfeld: "If I read something in the Times, I've already seen that story or nugget [online]." 8. Wolff to Roberts: "If Newsweek is still around in five years, I'll buy you dinner." 7. Carr, on Carr: "If I seem smug now, I was a lot more smug a year ago." 6. Carr, on the crash of traditional media: "It's like there's a piano above your head and the wire's been clipped." 5. Wolff, on Newser.com: "Essentially everything that NYT offers, I can offer, too. I can offer it more efficiently. And I can offer more." 4. Carr, to the "news aggregators": "You're a pilot fish." (read: parasite) 3. Carr, on transitioning to online media: "In the adapting matrix, I'm about where Fred Flintstone is." 2. Carr, after Roberts opines on walking into a newsroom with 100's of empty desks: "Have some sheet cake." 1. Wolff on the last "extraordinarily happy" person in media: "After [Rupert Murdoch], I suppose, the deluge." BLAKE GERNSTETTER
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