..... I am a friend of Arthur Sulzberger Jr. .....
Ho ho..... what a great chain of events.
It is going to be very bitter.
And you got to know that if the New York Times is the New Testament to these type people, Vanity Fair would be The Gospel According to St. John...
CATFIGHT, ROUND TWO!!
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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 8/14/2006 9:09:19 PM
Title: Wolff: I'm as meek as a mouse next to Kaiser
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
From MICHAEL WOLFF: Re Charles Kaiser. I am, as it happens, sort of a friend of Charlie Kaiser's (we were at the Times together many years ago; my in-laws know his parents, etc). Everybody who is, or has been, his friend, knows that friendship with Charlie can be dangerous--you don't want to be on the receiving end of an email from Charlie, less a public email. (Somebody should really take away his account.) While I may be sometimes guilty of overstating my case, compared to Charlie I'm meek as a mouse. Among his extreme passions--both for and against--is the New York Times. He, as much as anybody, exemplifies that terrible Times syndrome that nothing exists, or will ever exist, so large in his professional life as the Times and the days he spent there (often unhappily, as I recall). Nobody can talk about the Times without him feeling he should be in on the conversation. If I'd praised the Times, Charlie would be vilifying it (and vilifying me for praising it). Anyway, the points I made were largely business points, which Charlie would not have much interest in: a) The Times' national strategy is at the expense of its core audience; b) Given the mass market economics of the Internet, the Times, if it is to succeed as an online proposition, cannot stay the Times; c) Charlie Kaiser's friend, Arthur Sulzberger, is a problematic corporate leader who has dramatically changed the nature of his family's stewardship. I look forward to seeing Charlie in the flesh--away from his email--where he is always mild, humorous, and temperate. [Permalink]