Media’s ‘Short-Term Thinkers’ Get Blame for Industry Struggles

OM: Om Malik: “To put it bluntly, media execs are good at aping, not at innovating. Most wait for others to try new things, and then adopt those things once they have proven successful. As a smart media insider quipped to me, ‘The smartest people in media get out.’ It is a forest fire of an industry.”