Old Media Excess: Is Bloomberg The New Condé Nast?

This weekend’s New York Times feature about Bloomberg L.P., the “28-year-old media and technology company” started by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg in 1981, reads like anachronistic peek into the bygone days of media, packed with equal parts success and hubris, looking both to history and to the future. But with “free kiwis and pomegranates,” haven’t we been here before?