Online media: it’s bigger than porn

Last week I went to cover a panel discussion with a handful of media watchers like Keith J. Kelly, David Carr and Michael Wolff.

The best line of the night was when Carr said that news was the most popular thing on the web, except maybe porn. Michael Wolff also said, perhaps presciently, that “if Newsweek is around in five years, I’ll buy you dinner.”

See my post on The Huffington Post below:

Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff said today he’d be surprised if newsmagazines like Newsweek survive the next half-decade, given how much the print media have been squeezed by the shift of readers to online.

“We’re looking at our own obsolescence,” he told his fellow panelists at an I Want Media forum on “The Future of Media” held as part of the first ever Internet Week in New York City.

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