VanityFair.com
After
losing millions in the '90s on an Internet venture,
Michael Wolff is trying again with
newser.com. "Every advance in technology has seen the invention of a new form of news," he writes. "Linotype got us mass circulation of newspapers 125 years ago; television, the network evening news 60 years ago; cable, 24-7 satellite news 25 years ago. So what's Internet news -- what's the new news thing? ...There are no 20-year-olds; no YouTube kids, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen; no Google guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin; no Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, talking about news,
the news, on the Internet. And yet, what if? What if you could become the Amazon of news? The Google of news?
This is a holy grail."
