one of the most interesting things in a recent excellent post from douglass ruskoff’s blog on aol time/warner is the admission that the new york times refused to run his original op ed bit:
“What I wrote was that AOL’s purchase of Time/Warner heralded the end of the dot.com bubble. AOL was cashing in its casino chips. And just like the gambler who trades in his colored plastic disks for real cash, AOL’s Steve Case understood that his run was over and that it was time to trade in his stock certificates for those of a company that had genuine assets.
The New York Times refused to run the piece. (I did get the “kill” fee.) They told me I was misreading the landscape to such an extent that for them to publish such a view would be irresponsible.”
lets all stop and enjoy the delicious irony of this little revelation appearing on his weblog.