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from: Barb Jernigan
date: 2003-06-17 07:59:46
subject: Re: The press? Depress!

Is this to say Randoph Hearst was before his time?

beyond the consolodation issues -- and there are still myriad individuals
reporting their slant -- no new news here, imho

Remember the Maine! tygress

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Michael Nellis
 writes:
> Hi, Clayton.
> 
> --- "R. Clayton McKee"  wrote:
> 
> > Consolidation. More profitable, less cost.  
> 
> > [...]
> 
> > And now, it's going to get a LOT worse before it gets better -- 
> > assuming, of course, that it ever gets better....
> 
> It's not going to get better.   A pretty fair look at what is wrong
> with the newspaper industry can be found in:
> 
> Yesterday's News: Why Newspapers are Failing Us
> John Miller -1998 
> ISBN 1-55266-000-1
> Dewey # 071.1 M648
> 
>  . . . and in another book called: When MBAs Rule the Newsroom.  I
> don't have the data on that one however.  Miller is a professor of
> journalism at Ryerson Institute in Toronto.  I like his thinking.  
> He
> holds forth that a free press belongs to everybody, but mostly he 
> can
> look at the practices of journalism rationally instead of through 
> his prejudices.
> 
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