A panel of leading media executives took a combative tone against search engines during a panel discussion at the 56th annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Reuters reports.
“The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Richard Parsons said.
“They will lose this war if they go to war,” Parsons added, “The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion.”
Them’s fightin’ words. See the full report here.
By Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Declaring war May 10, 2007 - 1:49 am
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By Angela Grant May 10, 2007 - 11:33 am
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By Sean Blanda May 10, 2007 - 7:57 pm
Something tells me Google is the cool thing to scapegoat for just about every industry…