The Economist (August 17)
“The web is beginning to fit into the media world’s oldest script: a new technology rides into town, the moguls try to destroy it, but it survives and becomes part of the town’s future. Hollywood loathed the VCR (comparing it to the Boston Strangler); the networks hated cable TV; sheet-music publishers feared the phonograph…. Yet nearly always two things happen: the old media survive (people are still buying vinyl records and even the odd printed magazine), and the new media expand the market.”
Tags: Cable, Hollywood, Magazine, Market, Music, Networks, New media, Old media, Phonograph, Print, Publishers, Records, Technology, TV, VCR, Vinyl, Web
Financial Times (June 9)
“Shinzo Abe’s gamble to revive Japan’s economic fortunes faces its biggest test so far.” Moving on to his “third arrow” of fiscal/regulatory reform to stimulate the market is essential, but “politically, this is a tall order. Structural changes are bound to affect powerful insiders.”
Tags: Fiscal, Insiders, Japan, Market, Regulatory reform, Shinzo Abe, Structural changes
Wall Street Journal (November 9)
Amidst concern over the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Japan and China, “a dose of realism is in order about what the China market does and doesn’t mean to Japanese automakers…. To the extent a Chinese boycott is further depressing Japanese auto sales, of course it will hurt the carmakers’ bottom lines in a significant way. But it turns out China is simply an important market, not a uniquely important market.”
Tags: Automakers, China, Diplomatic dispute, Japan, Market, Sales
