{"id":320,"date":"2007-02-28T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-02-28T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T10:25:00","slug":"newspapers-before-focus-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/newspapers-before-focus-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers before focus groups&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1840s American poet <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Walt Whitman<\/span> was a newspaper editor in Brooklyn, running the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Daily Eagle<\/span>. Before <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul Lazarsfeld<\/span> came up with the focus group, here&#8217;s how one of Whitman&#8217;s editorials described the relationship between journalist and reader: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe really feel a desire to talk on many subjects to all the people of Brooklyn; and it ain\u2019t their ninepences we want so much either. There is a curious kind of sympathy (haven\u2019t you ever thought of it before?) that arises in the mind of a newspaper conductor with the public he serves . . . Daily communion creates a sort of brotherhood and sisterhood between the two parties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the idea of newspaper conductors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1840s American poet Walt Whitman was a newspaper editor in Brooklyn, running the Daily Eagle. Before Paul Lazarsfeld came up with the focus group, here&#8217;s how one of Whitman&#8217;s editorials described the relationship between journalist and reader: \u201cWe really feel a desire to talk on many subjects to all the people of Brooklyn; [&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":[120],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}