1990's Case Study

The 1990’s are often regarded as one of America’s more prosperous decades, akin to the 1920’s and 50’s. Good economic conditions such as these both rise from and stimulate competition in various markets. In an attempt to stay ahead of their rivals, The Daily News printed their newspapers with a fully colored front page for the first time on June 5, 1997 (Peterson). As newspapers were competing against not only other newspapers but alternate forms of media as well, The Daily News was looking to color pictures to catch the eye of potential readers, and hopefully stay relevant in the news market. While The Daily News was trying to get ahead, one local paper was fighting just to stay in the game. The Peekskill Herald, a small, weekly paper that covered the local events of Peekskill, New York,

The pressure of the competition was clearly getting to the semifinalists, as none of them were performing nearly as well as they had during preliminaries. In addition, the favorite to be the winner, Stanislav Yudenich, was forced to withdraw after a teapot inflicted his left hand with second-degree burns. The judges of the competition found themselves having trouble picking finalists. One judge, Warren Jones, believed that a large part of their trouble was based on the fact that of these pianists did not have the right level of maturity. Jones also stated that that competition requires a certain level of “mental stamina as well as physical,” which was not being displayed, and is key if one is to come out on top of any rivalry. Maria Guralnik, general manager of this competition since 1993, says that this has also been made tougher by the fact that “there are too many pianists, and too few performance opportunities” (Kozinn). While Guralnik may have been applying this statement to competition of the musical kind, there’s no doubt it could easily be applied anywhere in this competitive