{"id":727,"date":"2007-11-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2007-11-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T07:00:00","slug":"old-ideas-on-newspaper-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/11\/old-ideas-on-newspaper-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Old ideas on newspaper ownership&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>ith US media regulator the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FCC<\/span><\/a> looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/investing.reuters.co.uk\/news\/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&amp;storyID=nN13589808\" target=\"_blank\">relaxing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003671782\" target=\"_blank\">cross-media ownership rules<\/a>, and all the recent excitement in the US over newspaper ownership , it is worth recalling a different and rather quaint proposal, from way back when: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The basic material conditions of contemporary journalism are fatally unsound. Journalism that is too \u201ccheap\u201d to be self-supporting as journalism cannot be satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers that cannot make their ends meet without heavy, abundant advertising, and to which circulation is merely a means to advertising, cannot be independent, sober, and honest.<\/p>\n<p>They are under the constant necessity of \u201csplurging,\u201d of trafficking in rumors and false reports, of making mountains out of molehills.<\/p>\n<p>And this in turn carries with it the necessity of rigorous economy in handling news that cannot possibly be rendered sensational and exciting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Has not the time come to revive definitely the idea &#8211; vaguely broached years ago &#8211; of privately endowed newspapers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediagiraffe.org\/pdf\/endowed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Neglected Opportunity and Duty in Journalism<\/a>,\u2019 Victor S. Yarros, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The American Journal of Sociology<\/span>, Vol 22, No 2 (Sep 1916), pp. 203-211.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With US media regulator the FCC looking at relaxing cross-media ownership rules, and all the recent excitement in the US over newspaper ownership , it is worth recalling a different and rather quaint proposal, from way back when: The basic material conditions of contemporary journalism are fatally unsound. Journalism that is too \u201ccheap\u201d to be [&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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}