Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta
Ken Aulettais an American writer, journalist and media critic for The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 April 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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Let's concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers - international news, weather, sports, business, gossip, movie reviews and results of planning board meetings. But too often, journalistic supermarkets have become specialty stores,
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Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,
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This is a guy who has an amazing track record over a long period of time. He's not a one-shot wonder. If you can get Jobs on your team, and then make sure he has a stake in the company succeeding, that's a desirable thing.
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In the end, you have to listen to your customers. Isn't a good business supposed to understand its customers?
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Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.
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The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.
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Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.
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Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
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The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.
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An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
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Passion without focus can lead you astray.
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Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.