BARRY DILLER SPEAKS OUT

Some quotes from a conversation between Michael Eisner and Barry Diller:

About multimedia companies:

“As they get more diversified they get less well managed.”

About old news media companies:

“All of these companies were based upon being dictatorial and telling people how they would do business with them.”

Diller values editorship, so much so that he repeated the point. The more content, the more editorship “as clear, as narrow as possible, is going to be prized.”