I can believe the media is greatly filtered and controlled by federal
government... I can speak personally, knowing reporters in part who
have worked to break edgey editorials and features that were far
reaching.
Money issues aside, the powers that are make the rules. One call to the
publisher and most things get squashed or the article gets edited by
the government entities first.
Mass media is less than honest on big stories like this attack... when
it comes to hometown crap they tend to be fairly close... afterall who
cares about a few peons.. it keeps us all happy arguing in our tiny
sandboxes with each other, while the big fish swim right past us with
everything in hand.
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:25:59 -0700
Subject: RE: New News from Germany.
> I should add ... about the newspapers publishing extra editions at an
> expense that will not be recovered -- and it won't ...
>
> If these newspapers had not published extra editions, most readers
> never
> even would have noticed ... so they would not have lost readers (very
> few
> newspapers today compete in a two newspaper town).
>
> Publishing a extra edition does nothing to bring in new subscribers.
>
> The churn rate among subscribers may subside a bit during the crisis
> (translating into slightly higher subscription numbers), but no
> newspapers
> will be bumped up into the next circulation category which will allow
> them
> to raise their advertising rates.
>
> At a time when we are on the cusp of a recession, facing an uncertain
> economic future, when overall advertising is already down (especially
> in
> classifieds, because of the Internet), these newspapers through the
> accounting books out the window and did was was right from a news
> perspective.
>
> I can't speak for the broadcast industry because I have no direct
> experience
> there, especially on the financial side, but I imagine their economic
> conditions are not far removed from what newspapers are facing.
>
> H.
>
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