I had some hope that Rick Rubin would be able to slap some people around in an e...

I had some hope that Rick Rubin would be able to slap some people around in an effort to stop the insanity, but apparently he was overwhelmed by the minutiae of absurdest corporate bureaucracy and he's basically given up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/arts/music/07rubi.html

Compare with this article from 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02rubin.t.html