Charlie Rose

RogerE  01/16/2011 01:42 PM Report

This new editor of BusinessWeek has destroyed this publication as a credible information tool for executives. Not only has he politicized it like other major media types [no surprise it mirrors Bloomberg's left of center political bias], but the content is increasingly a hybridized Time magazine with no value for executives who wish to anticipate issues, or update themselves on functional matters. Unfortunately, it does not present clarity for any reader because it uses a "positioning approach" this incompetent described to Charlie Rose in his interview. Hence the publication has no true identity. That editor will be fired in due course and the business of BusinessWeek will inevitably fail. Editor Josh Tyrangiel is bviously not savvy to business.

My staff has unanimously voted to not renew our multi-decade subscription. We shall move to Forbes.

Personally I had hopes after "Bloomberg News" purchased the publication, but should have realized NYC Mayor Bloomberg still has influence there [contrary to his public claims of hands off] ..

Bloomberg himself has morphed into a martinet who is out of touch with American political reality as well as the USA business community. We are sick of the anti-business bias by our politicians. These politicians have fallen to the lowest depths of untrustworthiness, lack of sensitivity to average citizens' needs, and our concerns. My condolences to the citizens of NYC who now have a form of rigged monocracy.

bradrourke  12/23/2010 08:36 PM Report

IMO the cliché speak from Joshua in his initial monologue is a little irritating.

JohnGelles  12/22/2010 03:23 AM Report

I just read my own comment. It's OK. But what's really on MY MIND is Kucinich and his NEED endeavor. NEED is an emergency employment defense attempt -- my own special interest in full employment and optimistic outcomes such as Ray Kurzweil always predicts (Ray is the Singularity University guy -- Google for it, if your not already a fan like me.)

Everything on Earth, for me, comes down to full employment of labor and capital to make our neighborhood and all the world a better place. Just like the car and battery guy wants to do: See Charlie Rose interview Shai Agassi to unpack that ("unpack" is Tavis Smiley's favorite phrase).

See what I mean, I plucked the name out of the cloud attached to my task tray at the bottom of my screen. We'll all go mad -- after we've forgotten what it is to keep away from that little bit of knowledge we once thought was a very dangerous thing.

JohnGelles  12/22/2010 03:06 AM Report

Time and Business Week. There was a time when I read Business Week and Bloomberg was not Mayor of NYC or a major force in media. I wanted to know what was "going on" in business and technology. Every week computers were creating something new -- something powerful -- for analytics, for calculating and predicting and presenting.

And all of a sudden, we went from every week (with a moving window of two weeks) to every day, with things happening by the hour.

We in the audience get the benefit of the 2000 writers Josh Tyrangiel mentions. And, I tell you what, as I think about this potent interview I'm copying JT's name into my Google searcher in my task tray to create a window for simultaneous write and research at this moment:

I read, in that window, from the Huffington Post:

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Email Comments NEW YORK — Josh Tyrangiel, the deputy managing editor of Time magazine, will become editor of BusinessWeek when Bloomberg LP takes over the magazine next month.

Tyrangiel will step in at a crucial transition for Bloomberg. The news and financial data provider hopes to use BusinessWeek to grow beyond its electronic terminal business and reach a more influential audience in government offices and corporate suites.

One important job will be bolstering the magazine's Web site, an area where many consumer magazines are struggling to adapt. In announcing the appointment Tuesday, Bloomberg pointed up Tyrangiel's Web experience, crediting him with boosting Time.com's page views from 400 million in 2006 to a projected 1.8 billion this year. Tyrangiel is the site's managing editor.

He also comes to the job as printed magazines face one of the worst advertising slumps in decades. BusinessWeek's ad pages were down 29 percent year-over-year for the six months that ended in September.

Tyrangiel, 37, will report to Bloomberg's chief content officer, Norman Pearlstine, who served as Time's editor for more than a decade before joining a private equity firm in 2006.

In a statement, Pearlstine said Tyrangiel's "understanding of the ways in which print and online publications can work together will serve Bloomberg well as we expand our consumer media offerings."

After months of shopping the magazine, McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. agreed last month to sell it to Bloomberg, a private company owned and founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Although neither McGraw-Hill nor Bloomberg disclosed the price, BusinessWeek reported the sale price as between $2 million and $5 million in cash, plus the assumption of costs such as severance for any magazine employees who are laid off.

The magazine's current top editor, Stephen Adler, plans to step down after holding the job for more than four years. In a memo last month announcing his departure, Adler said "it makes sense for a new owner to move forward with a new editor."

Adler, who took over at BusinessWeek in April 2005, managed to keep the magazine's circulation steady at more than 900,000 copies. He launched a sweeping redesign of the magazine in 2006 and 2007, cutting features on fashion and travel and expanding to cover more global business stories."

[Copyrighted text from Huffington Post is copied at the teachable moment under the fair use doctrine under American law -- it is not for my profit and will benefit readers as well as the Huffington Post]

So what does the Rose interview mean? It means we're entering a wonderful age where exceptional talent in the communicative arts will inform and entertain. Will it educate for democratic outcomes? That remains to be seen. Some in this Rose audience will say democratic outcomes is not what commerce is about. I say just the opposite. And, as usual I'm right.

robdverity  12/21/2010 05:23 PM Report

This dork deemed the bailouts a success based on their repayment. Like pricing nuclear energy sans waste disposal costs. The hinterlands are overrun with foreclosures and bankruptcies - CAUSED BY THE NYC BIG BANK LEADS - along with world ec. collapse and he claims we lost nothing. That's too obtuse for public utterance. Just another shill.

REMant  12/21/2010 01:01 PM Report

I'm not sure why it was brought up, but Normal, Illinois was named for its teacher's college, now called Illinois State. Where that term came from is shrouded in mystery, but it clearly means standard, and was in widespread use for teacher training institutions, called normal schools, in the 19th c.

Journalism these days seems to be torn between controlling its reporters editorially, and asking them to sell themselves personally by blogging and op-eding. You can see it in the Washington Post's decision to put little pictures of its columnists at the top of their work, rarely done heretofore and almost exclusively for sports and gossip. There are more of them than ever, too.

I'd have left Time, myself, because I think the writing, so to speak, is on the wall. I think they put Zuckerberg on cover mainly because they were scared to put Assange on it, or any of the Tea Party.

I have a feeling, incidentally, that Facebook and Google have already peaked, being pushed out mostly by more direct marketing and segmentation and a rise in smaller Internet "appliances." Google, of course, is still probably way over-capitalized and may be able to buy its way out, tho Microsoft never has been, and it is clearly flailing around. I am somewhat ambivalent about it, because this trend seems to me to be aimed at destroying the Web freedom. Talking about business trends in terms of the fortunes of a few giants, is like talking about history in terms of a few personalities - not very instructive.