[Am-info] Kinsley resignes as editor of MS Slute

[John J. Urbaniak]

Gene Gaines wrote:

> Michael Kinsley resigns as editor of MSN Slate.
>
> As reported in the New York Times; no mention on the
> Slate web site.
>
> Good man, bad job, bad company.
>
> Could it be that the redesign of the Slate web pages to be
> another damnfool MSN butterfly had something to do with it?

Or, it could be that Slate was a money-loser big time.  Kinsley was
supposed to get all this wonderful, new technological stuff from MS to
provide ground-breaking 21st century on-line publishing services.  But
it never panned out.

I also remember all those marvelous promises made when MSNBC was
formed.  There were supposed to be all these new age, pushing back the
foreskin of tecnology, interactive web-news things happening.  But,
instead, MSNBC is just another 24-hour news channel, with NBC doing all
the work and MS doing nothing.  I think it's ratings show consistent
last-places.

I suspect a dissolution of the MS-NBC "partnership" is also looming.

Like everything Microsoft-related, the promise is never fulfilled.

John




>
>
> If you havn't noticed, top line on the Slate homepage reads:
> MSN Home|My MSN|Hotmail|Search|Shopping|Money|People & Chat|
>
> I'm disappointed.  It is about time for Microsoft management
> to panic over the antitrust proceeding and again rush
> something crazy into Slate, to the embarrassment of Kinsley.
> I was looking forward to seeing that.
>
> Gene Gaines
> gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
> Sterling, Virginia
>
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