{"id":929,"date":"2008-05-07T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2008-05-07T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T07:46:00","slug":"business-bad-journalism-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/business-bad-journalism-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Business bad. Journalism good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">J<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7BF8886DFF%2D921E%2D4D52%2DA2C6%2D4D5634AFBC36%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">on Friedman<\/a> has a walk down ethics lane today, prompting <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ken Auletta<\/span> to come out with this distinctly non-counter-intuitive take on why ethical lapses occur. (And in the words of the song &#8211; \u201cStop me if you think you\u2019ve heard this one before.\u201d)<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDeclining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news organizations, coupled with expanding consumer choices, prompts slashed newsroom budgets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis leaves fewer editors and fact checkers to police newsrooms. Worse, with business declining, the folks who sign our checks push for more sensational stories, more conflict, more sharp opinion &#8211; anything &#8211; to lift their news stories from the clutter. The business culture imposes itself on the journalistic culture. In the contest between the two cultures, business usually triumphs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But is there any evidence for a relationship between adverse business conditions and deliberate misreporting? If there is I\u2019d like to see it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Friedman has a walk down ethics lane today, prompting Ken Auletta to come out with this distinctly non-counter-intuitive take on why ethical lapses occur. (And in the words of the song &#8211; \u201cStop me if you think you\u2019ve heard this one before.\u201d) \u201cDeclining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional [&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":[275],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}