But fault also lies with the geography, demographics, competition and technology that all make the Bay Area perhaps the toughest newspaper market in the country.
Journalists apologizing for Los Angeles television stations that broadcast a gruesome suicide cite "journalistic competition and technology" as the devils that made the stations do it (front page, May 2).
In energy as in businesses like financial services, telecommunications and automobiles, unthinkable combinations have been made practical, even necessary, by global competition and technology.
The graphic and lurid coverage of Mr. Jones's actions on several local television stations and one national cable channel -- in some cases interrupting cartoons -- prompted calls to the stations from angry parents and produced a round of hand-wringing and apologies over what journalistic competition and technology have now made possible.
They're classic examples of twin death knells for industries: foreign competition and technology.
Some companies like Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble –have been doing some scenario planning, but it's been directed toward competition and technology.
Tedlow cataloged well-known companies and leaders who failed to act in the face the obvious changes in their industries, competition, and technology [36].
But aside from the differences in competition and technology, the question facing both countries is, once consumers have the capability to receive digital programming, will they care?
Trakman (2008) addressed the changing landscape (i.e. competition and technology) that necessitates corporate-type governance in U.K. and U.S. universities, cautioning that "one size" may not fit all markets.
While it's unlikely that AT&T, Sprint or WorldCom will ever give away voice as a stand-alone service, competition and technology changes are forcing them to offer it dirt cheap to entice consumers and businesses to buy a package of services.
