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Synergy — Killer of Time and Life

There’s a great article today in CJR that explains why Time Inc. failed. It’s the standard tale of when hubris meets greed and they decide to work together to destroy us all.

You can read it here.

What the article doesn’t point out is that Time Inc. deserved to die. It had it coming. At worst it was justifiable homicide, at best, assisted suicide. Of course, all the players that…