http://jamespoling.com/current-time-magazine-cover-story-on-how-to-save-your-newspaper-epitomizes-why-newspapers-need-to-be-saved-in-the-first-place/ I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://jamespoling.com/current-time-magazine-cover-story-on-how-to-save-your-newspaper-epitomizes-why-newspapers-need-to-be-saved-in-the-first-place/comment-page-1/#comment-166 James Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:36:08 +0000 http://jamespoling.com/?p=1653#comment-166 @<a href="#comment-160" rel="nofollow">pepe</a>: Exactly. It's like it's a complete shock to them and it's totally coming out of left field that somehow people don't trust the mainstream media anymore when they've been little more than corporate soap boxes for the last 30 years. @pepe: Exactly. It’s like it’s a complete shock to them and it’s totally coming out of left field that somehow people don’t trust the mainstream media anymore when they’ve been little more than corporate soap boxes for the last 30 years.

]]> http://jamespoling.com/current-time-magazine-cover-story-on-how-to-save-your-newspaper-epitomizes-why-newspapers-need-to-be-saved-in-the-first-place/comment-page-1/#comment-160 pepe Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:41:06 +0000 http://jamespoling.com/?p=1653#comment-160 One thing that seems to get glossed over is that the current state of print media is too dependent on corporations. The press has gone from actual reporting to spinning and keeping their corporate owners happy, rather than in check. When three to four media conglomerates own the print media, there is no way that the news can be unbaised, free or properly reported on. Yes, this goes back to the W.R. Hearst days, but throw in the rise of advertising paying for most of the print media's world and you've got a larger reaching problem. When the print media as we know it became part catalogue, part mouthpiece, they had sealed their own fate. Quite frankly, I don't think many will mourn the loss of the print media once that day comes. Other than the "hardcore journos." Here's a great link, one that I check out daily. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45 One thing that seems to get glossed over is that the current state of print media is too dependent on corporations. The press has gone from actual reporting to spinning and keeping their corporate owners happy, rather than in check.
When three to four media conglomerates own the print media, there is no way that the news can be unbaised, free or properly reported on. Yes, this goes back to the W.R. Hearst days, but throw in the rise of advertising paying for most of the print media’s world and you’ve got a larger reaching problem.
When the print media as we know it became part catalogue, part mouthpiece, they had sealed their own fate. Quite frankly, I don’t think many will mourn the loss of the print media once that day comes.
Other than the “hardcore journos.”
Here’s a great link, one that I check out daily.
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

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