“It’s not nostalgia. I dream about [The New York Observer]. I miss it everyday, but it was a bubble in time. The thing you gotta get used to in the media is the fact that you only live in an ever-changing present. And so, nobody remembers yesterday’s newspaper but the editor. So I miss it, but I’d be surprised if anybody else does.”
Peter Kaplan, ex-editor of the Observer and, full disclosure, my former boss.
I think even Peter knows that’s not true. Plenty of people miss yesterday’s newspaper—especially the Observer. Perhaps too many. Although his point of living in the “ever-changing present” is well taken.
Speaking of which, he loves Murdoch’s iPad Daily:
“I think it’s the beginning of the new day,” Kaplan said. “I think it’s an amazing moment. Rupert [Murdoch] really is a visionary. I think it’s gonna work. I think an iPad or a Tablet-focused newspaper is its own animal, and I think it’s an incredible opening for the media. It’s the best merger of the old media and new media there could possibly be.”
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