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Entries by Charles Warner from 07/2009

MBAs are "a Menace to Society": George Bush and Katherine Weymouth are MBAs

| Posted 07.08.2009 | Business
Read More: Harvard MBA, Katharine Weymouth, Washington Post, Harvard Business School, Business School, George W. Bush, Business News

As an entitled daughter of a privileged, powerful family, Weymouth, like Bush, did not earn her job on merit, but got it because she is a member of the Luck Sperm Club.

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Clash of Titans: Anderson Vs. Gladwell

| Posted 07.15.2009 | Media
Read More: Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Free, Janet Maslin, Media News

After reading Gladwell's review (which, to Anderson's point and ironically, is free on the New Yorker's website), I got the distinct impression that Gladwell was being a little jealous and piqued.

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The NY Times Made Me Do It

| Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
Read More: NY Times, Merck, Stanford Law School, George Bush, The Washington Post, Katharine Weymouth, Grey Lady, Bloggers, Ad Age, Vioxx, Oxford University, New York Times, Blogging Heads, Judith Miller Iraq, Frank Rich, Judith Miller, David Carr, Harvard College, Media News

The nation's journal of record; America's first draft of history; the Grey Lady, -- the New York Times -- got it wrong and that the crowd-sourced, open-source, oft-criticized Wikipedia got it right.

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The Economist Eats the WSJ's Lunch

| Posted 07.22.2009 | Media
Read More: The Economist, New York Times, Freemium, WSJ.Com, Wsj, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Folio, Media News

The Economist makes a lot of money and the WSJ loses a lot of money, even though they both have a freemium business model for their Web offering. Why?

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