Monday, March 07, 2005
plenty of interest nowadays in what is called by various terms, the media, journalism. the press, etc, etc.
does no one grasp what's going on? readership of newspapers continues a steady decline. so what's new? I can remember all the way back to when the NY Herald was a good paper but it went away. AP & UP news svc merged. down down down. no one notices that TV is a money pot, so why news? they can whipsaw the public back & forth at campaign time, and the money pours in from both sides for political ads. why have a news service? Dan Rather going? no one really cares.
Rupe Murdock has the key & we just pump more $$ into his pockets. doesn't anyone wonder why the head guy at Gannett invested $6 mill to get USA going? People love 3 days worth of news for the price of one, & can tell the difference.
I love the quote yrs ago by the former Sec. of Commerce during Carters admin who presided over the deregulation of the airlines ( which is today even a bigger disaster than when he made the remark) who, when asked if he still thought the de-reg was a good idea, said, 'yes, but who could have predicted the abandonment of the anti-trust laws?'
how quaint. anti-trust laws?
does no one grasp what's going on? readership of newspapers continues a steady decline. so what's new? I can remember all the way back to when the NY Herald was a good paper but it went away. AP & UP news svc merged. down down down. no one notices that TV is a money pot, so why news? they can whipsaw the public back & forth at campaign time, and the money pours in from both sides for political ads. why have a news service? Dan Rather going? no one really cares.
Rupe Murdock has the key & we just pump more $$ into his pockets. doesn't anyone wonder why the head guy at Gannett invested $6 mill to get USA going? People love 3 days worth of news for the price of one, & can tell the difference.
I love the quote yrs ago by the former Sec. of Commerce during Carters admin who presided over the deregulation of the airlines ( which is today even a bigger disaster than when he made the remark) who, when asked if he still thought the de-reg was a good idea, said, 'yes, but who could have predicted the abandonment of the anti-trust laws?'
how quaint. anti-trust laws?
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