Michael Wolff, Prognosticator

Apparently, self-important, crazy overrated Vanity Fair media writer Michael Wolff said this:

"We're looking at our own obsolescence," he told his fellow panelists at an I Want Media forum ... . "If Newsweek is around in five years, I'll buy you dinner."

Which gives me an excuse to link to this quote, from a speech he gave in February 2005:

[H]aving been around this business now for some time I've learned that nothing lasts too long. By all rights, 18 months from now we should be looking back at this and all kind of embarrassed to say the word blog—I hope.

I'm not exactly bullish on the newsweeklies' prospects, but if ever you have the chance, bet against Michael Wolff.

Comments

[Sir Charles]

Ankush,

You're on fire here -- and no cheating with youtube postings like some of us -- okay me.

What I like about our MSM giants is that they are wrong, wrong, and wrong again, and yet never feel compelled to acknowledge that fact.

[John]

I don't even think Wolff really thinks Newsweek won't be around in five years. He's being provocative to get attention and knows that in five years, when Newsweek is predictably still in business, nobody is going to remember this.