Marc Andreessen is famous as an extremely successful investor in Silicon Valley startups and that means he knows a thing or two about a thing or two but probably not the business of news. His recent analysis of the news media business has not impressed those in the news business.
Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review said Andreessen “has some outlandish predictions about the future of the journalism business.”
He picks apart Andreessen’s claim that the news industry will grow by 10 times to as much as 100 times over the next 20 years....
Tom Foremski links to a variety of critics of Andreessen's analysis of the news business.