Feb. 24th, 2007

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Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the ego recognize them.
A redesigned Web site is to appear in mid-April, with more video and new features. Mr. Peretz said that the magazine had been “over our heads” on the Web, and had been using “retarded technologies,” but was now making a bigger investment.

“The print publication cannot keep up with the news,” Mr. Peretz said. So actual news will go up on the Web site, which now has five employees, up from two a year ago, while the longer production cycle for the print magazine will give writers more time for reporting.

Mr. Peretz, 67, has himself become a blogger. He said he was “not enjoying it exactly,” but that he had found it addictive.

“When I used to see something irritating, I would typically call a friend,” he said. “Now I just go to the blog.” He said he is often surprised at how quickly readers will post a response. “It’s as if they’re waiting for something,” he said. “Then they say, ‘Ah, here he is. I’m going to pounce.’ ”

or, you know, maybe they just go to the blog when they see something irritating.

Seventy five percent of the New Republic is now owned by a company called CanWest (which also owns Canada's National Post, another rich guy's vanity project substantially past its sell-by date). CanWest has apparently committed to losing a great deal of money on both, a project which is already comfortably underway at the National Post. This gives Mr. Peretz some breathing room to prove that his decision-making and leadership can produce something other than a plunge in subscriptions (and, of course, a drowning publication using retarded technologies).

Presumably they're comfortable with Mr. Peretz' codifying his publication's existing distinction between "news" and "reporting."

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