"Shortly after Guy Vidra joined The New Republic magazine in October as its chief executive, he gathered the staff around a conference table in its Washington offices overlooking the National Portrait Gallery.
Mr. Vidra, who previously worked at Yahoo, said there were peacetime chief executives and wartime chief executives, and he was the latter. He added, using a profanity, that he planned to break stuff — a Silicon Valley phrase that implies disruptive innovation. He petted his laptop and told those gathered how important computers were to him." http://www.cnbc.com/id/102241233
Lol. Some Silicon thirty-something comes into a 100 year old magazine in D.C. and says he's a "wartime CEO." He's gonna break shit! He "petted" his laptop! Oh, good writing there, we can really picture the absurdity of the scene.
The New Republic was the most important magazine in my life. Was important to others for 100 years. I remember when Marty Peretz bought it in the 1970's. Peretz was an iconoclast, he broke shit too. He was a wonderful writer himself though, brought in other talented writers, made The New Republic a better magazine. Hope Guy Vidra can write because he may have to. This knucklehead has already brought with him staff resignations, cancellation of the 100th anniversary edition, a cutback from 20 issues per year to 10 and this headline in the Washington Post: "The New Republic is Dead, Thanks to its Owner." Hey! Disruptively innovate or die, right?
