Reuters correspondent Ken Li is in Sun Valley, Idaho this week for the annual Allen & Co. media mogul retreat. Convergence is on some minds at the gathering… Blake Krikorian, chief executive of media gadget maker Sling Media told Reuters that “people are recognizing that it’s not old media versus new media — we’re talking about the same consumer.” Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban isn’t thinking about corporate sponsorship.
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Does Mark Cuban’s decision to hire Dan Rather point the way to a new kind of independent media? He’s had a lot to say about how he can be an antidote to corporate media.
- Posted by PatrickWhat motivates a mogul to keep going when money is no longer an issue and the end is definitely in sight?
- Posted by StefanoDo the moguls encourage ethnic, racial and gender diversity in their organisations? I see that only one woman and one black man make the mogul face-book.
- Posted by Anonymous CowardOf course we’ll be reading newspapers in five years from now.
- Posted by ajwoodJust not buying as many though.
I heard one fairly eloquent Ted Turner recently put that is time to give women a go at running the world, particularly because men are stuffing things up so badly. He didn’t get much media coverage - no one ever listens to people who threaten their power base.
- Posted by kathryn pollardBut think about it folks.
Close your eyes those of you who are males, inclined to not be able to deal with many issues, maybe more then one issue at a time, and just imagine another world. Sorry I should write in shorter sentence.
Close eyes.
Concentrate.
Empty thinking cells of trivia.
Imagine the world the way it is - just different in that the majority of leaders are women.
Imagine the howls from the powerless fed up with the leader’s failure to stop the crime and cruelty across the world. “Give us a try your losers they would say. You have not used your power wisely and have too many poor report cards”.
Women who felt the pulse of life grow inside them -from embryo to adulthood - may have a more heightened capacity to have reverence for the nature of human life.
I think Ted Turner made a good suggestion, much brighter then others ideas that the world will be a better place if forget the truly big issues and concentrate on global warming.