A former REVIEW contributing editor reflects on what made themagazine successful in its heyday, and why the passing of theregion's old elite makes producing regional media more difficult.T WOULD BE easy to attri-bute the demise of the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC RE-VIEW to the shifting eco-nomics of the mediaindustry. After all, hundreds of newspapersand magazines have gone down the tubesin recent years under the combined weightof the Internet and economic recession. Butif that were the case, it would also be easyto identify the new and emerging outlets ofauthoritative Asian news and analysis thathad eaten the REVIEW'S bento box.
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