While in jail, Rezaian was attacked by Iran's hardline media, which tried to build a cause against him.
This is in part the fault of the media, which endlessly tries to manufacture splits within parties (as if all leaders were automatons, who had to agree with colleagues on everything), or to find "gaffes", which may consist merely of the recognition by a politician that the facts have changed, and that policy must adjust accordingly.
Magazine publishers have set up Next Issue Media, which is trying to shape the evolution of digital devices to suit their needs.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has already used Archive-It to capture the LA Weekly after it was acquired by Semenal Media, which originally tried to keep the identity of its owners secret, and then fired most of the newspaper's editorial staff.
Broadcasters have fairly regular run-ins with media agencies, which try strongarm tactics to get better TV ad deals for their advertiser clients, but in this case there was no negotiating.
That's probably because there are so few positive images of black people in mainstream media, which is something RainbowMe is trying to address.
He has not said publicly why he is leaving, and he has not responded to emails from media outlets, including HuffPost, which tried to contact him last week.
"Packaging the online properties as part of upfront buys is attractive to a lot of advertisers who see that as a way into the new media," which they may be reluctant to try on their own, he added.
Rather than trying to "fix" the media, which sounds horribly like a return to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, Labour should press full speed ahead with voting reform.
