A Forbes columnist comments on the passing of Portfolio magazine. His conclusion is that being born in New York City doomed the publication. If NYC is in trouble, it stands to reason that new ideas for publications born there will have trouble. He speculates that one shoulder launched missile launched into a fancy NYC eatery at LUNCH would advance publishing for everyone.
Here here, all my life since the birth of modern television in the 1950s, we are subjected to the view from New York City. Folks talk about Fifth Avenue or the Bronx but never about Helotes or Terrel Hills in San Antonio or Bellaire or Sharpstown were we in Houston. And that is the point, broadcasting has a New York myopia or a Los Angeles myopia as though all original thinking could only originate there.
At least CNN was birthed in Atlanta but that seems to have given way to NYC also.
The battle for the intellectual control of the US continues. Harvard and Yale would have us believe it is all up there, but for you and I, it is all out here, go West young man or lady. AS the New York Times founders losing millions a week, and New York City drives residents elsewhere with high taxes, one can scarcely tell in Texas that it is the worst of times. But in Detroit the residents hang on every promise from the NYC to Washington DC corridor, no wonder Perry mentioned the Secession word.
Professor Elam 
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