{"id":1204,"date":"2008-07-24T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:27:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:27:58","slug":"of-journalism-and-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/07\/of-journalism-and-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Of journalism and elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/56489041@N00\/45558172\" alt=\"'Journalism, distilled' by sebFlyte\" title=\"'Journalism, distilled' by sebFlyte\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/26\/45558172_fab03da41a_m.jpg\" class=\"alignright frame\" \/><\/a><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span><strong>eamus McCauley<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualeconomics.typepad.com\/virtualeconomics\/2008\/07\/write-elephants.html\" target=\"_blank\">responds<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/ryansholin.com\/2008\/07\/24\/the-business-model-is-still-the-elephant-in-the-room\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Sholin<\/a> and tells it like it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe the elephant in the room is a reluctance to even think of newspapers (or journalism or whatever you want to call it) in business terms. Because if we did, we wouldn&#8217;t start with the premise &#8220;since we&#8217;re definitely going to keep making journalism, how can we pay for it?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d already be thinking &#8220;is there enough of a market for journalism to keep doing it?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And nobody wants the answer to that question, because we kind of know already what it probably is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus McCauley responds to Ryan Sholin and tells it like it is: Maybe the elephant in the room is a reluctance to even think of newspapers (or journalism or whatever you want to call it) in business terms. Because if we did, we wouldn&#8217;t start with the premise &#8220;since we&#8217;re definitely going to keep making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1739,2408,1740,1738],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-business-model","tag-journalism","tag-ryan-sholin","tag-seamus-mccauley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}