{"id":615,"date":"2007-09-25T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2007-09-25T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T19:51:00","slug":"barry-diller-on-the-future-of-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/barry-diller-on-the-future-of-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Diller on the future of newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">J<\/span>ust because you\u2019re on the board of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t keep it real. <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_Diller\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Diller<\/a> has been sharing his thoughts on the future of newspapers with <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/views\/columns\/the-world-according-to\/2007\/09\/21\/An-interview-with-Barry-Diller\" target=\"_blank\">Portfolio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that the print business, the ink business, is deeply challenged. But I also think that\u2019s just the distribution mode. I think that the work that is done produces value, and it will produce value in the internet and other forms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But is there <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">any<\/span> hope? Go on &#8211; give us some hope, Barry!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI now get the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> printed on my own little printer on my boat every morning via the Internet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank %^&amp;* for that. Now newspapers just have to start giving away boats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you\u2019re on the board of the Washington Post doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t keep it real. Barry Diller has been sharing his thoughts on the future of newspapers with Portfolio: \u201cI think that the print business, the ink business, is deeply challenged. But I also think that\u2019s just the distribution mode. I think that [&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":[152],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-wa-po"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}