He picked the right metaphor. Every time I see the cover of an issue of Time in the checkout line of my local Superstore on 8th Street I think about taking scalps.

“We are the Sioux Nation”

oh please…I think this guy is getting a little carried away…oh, I forgot, he’s a Chief executive, right?

Like the rest of the MSM I guess he didn't follow the story to it's conclusion. June 25, 1876 was a date of demarcation just as December 7, 1941 was.

The victor won the day and failed to see the the magnitude of the forces they opposed...ultimately to their detriment.

I wonder if I should note May 8, 2007 as the day the smugsters died?

Syncro

It seems to me the "small" media is getting to them. No longer can they fudge the truth, deceive by omission and get away with it. They are feeling the pressure, they are being challenged.

I for one accept nothing they say as fact. Over the years they have lost their credibility through biased and slanted reporting.

Interesting that the Majors are freaking in the face of people's changing interests in where they spend their entertainment time and money. Sore losers aren't they?

It is also interesting that they likened themselves to the Indians who ganged up on and defeated that horrid Custer person.

It's most interesting that they seem to forget what became of most of the Indians once the rest of Custer's nation continued to arrive with new and more modern ideas.

Less than noble lives they lead these days.

Time Warner et al? Not much to proud of there either. Pack of destructive liars is all they have become or so it seems. Most of their entertainment sucks too and it's pretty much geared to the retards who can't use a computer very well.

Knowledge is power. Google has done a lot to empower the people. The Internet has made it all possible.

Who said it ...

"everything is in flux"

"change is the only constant"

Those old nuggets are constantly true.

Buggy whips used to be good business too.

Yanni, The quote was from Hericlitus, I think. He was an ancient Greek Philospher. What he said is true, IMO.

maybe he should have used the "Baghdad Bob" metaphor.

"there are no American tanks nearby . . "

"Old media has nothing to worry about . ."

(for Greg in Dallas)

Custer was also I believe in the Buckland Races, a massive Civil War cavalry engagement where the Rebs routed their Union counterparts and chased them for miles, killing many as they rode.

(don't tell Greg that despite the setback the Union prevailed in the end)

is he asking for subsidies like the Sioux Nation gets now?

What a load of crap! I smell fear and greed on these paleo-media schmucks and the smell is thick.

They get more exposure than they ever dreamed of...for free...on the net with bloggers linking to their sites and copy. The thing that galls them is they salivate over the thought of lost royaltues on the billions of links to their copy...maybe bloggers should charge them for publishing a link?

...and secondly they don't like their copy being linked to then critiqued for accuracy.

So screw you corporate media types...I blow my nose at you...new media is here...internet freedom is here...no more monopoly on info flow baby..get competative or get extinct.

I always laugh when I see these protected monopolists in a market jam...the first instinct is to get nanny state or her courts to kill the competition...never to respond to the demand that is pulling their customers.

Pffft these twits never bought into demand economics or free market capitalism. If there is a single vestage of the old 19th century robber-baron economic Darwinism it is the corporate media.

"No longer can they fudge the truth, deceive by omission and get away with it."

"Time Warner et al? Not much to proud of there either. Pack of destructive liars is all they have become or so it seems."

And you really believe this type of corporate conduct is unique to media companies?

Oh, no, guys, this metaphor is perfect.

Yeah, the Sioux massacred Custer. But who did Custer represent? The US Army.

And a couple of short years later, where were the Sioux? Decimated by smallpox, cornered on little bits of swamp and desert, and beginning their suckling of the federal teat because they could not support themselves anymore in the new order.

Sad but true. The mighty were humbled after a short season of victory. But I think this guy is dreaming if he thinks he and his compadres really have the guns to bring down this Custer. This Custer's brigade is armed with Gatlings.

Shane" You make a good point...the lesson learned by the Soux was that you can win a battle and lose the war ...if you staunchly resist change you are doomed to extinction.

I think what he is missing is that the new media is Custer's revenge.

The MSM has no future but continued death by a thousand paper cuts. Look at what Napster's launch did to the record industry. While we oldsters may be boycotting because of content, the younger generation aren't going to purchase a physical newspaper, if not because they are internet oriented, it will be to save trees, a lifetyle issue. TV is stale and ignorable now that the world is on your pc screen. It's so over for these old media folks.

Well, bury my heart at 30 Rock...

What a collection of sphincters.

The purveyor of dead trees and plastic personalities is showing why they are doomed! Good!

Well the Sioux also do the Buffalo Dance.

It is my understanding that they have a number of good straight shooters.

It is the slaughter of the buffalo herds that undermined this way of life. Although there are some tentative efforts to revive these populations.

http://www.greatcanadianparks.com/alberta/woodbufnp/index.htm

Notably, Wood Buffalo National Park was established in 1922 to protect the habitat of a small herd of wood bison whose declining population had dropped from an estimated 40 million in 1830 to less than 1000 by 1900.

Gee you wonder why Custer got served up an ass whipping? Just how in God's name did the US Army expect the Sioux to feed themselves?

Richard Parson's needs a historical reality adjustment. Likening the traditional media monopoly to the Sioux nation is quite the stretch.

Media empires are not equivalent to human populations.