{"id":2064,"date":"2009-05-03T22:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2017-03-02T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T23:23:39","slug":"journalism-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"Journalism 201"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just commented on Rob Karwath&#8217;s limp defense of journalists getting into bed with advertisers. No doubt Rob would resent that analysis and I&#8217;ll admit he did put in lots of caveats, but that was my take. I know its not easy being a print journalist these days. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/28\/business\/media\/28paper.html\">Circulation declines at major papers are accelerating<\/a>. The Trib is woefully understaffed  compared to the past and its local news coverage keeps shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Karwath&#8217;s column the one written and published on 4-26-2009 by the CEO of Forum Communications was positively bullish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWho said newspapers are dinosaurs, extinct, obsolete? I don&#8217;t think so. Newspapers today, both in print and online, have more readers than ever. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless you plan to spring for $2.95 to read it don&#8217;t bother looking for it. Its already hidden away on the Net.<\/p>\n<p>As I read it I was thinking to myself that if the owners of the newspapers have to tell us they are doing well it was a little like the CEO of General Motors telling me to buy a Humvee because America&#8217;s automotive business was headed for a come back. I&#8217;m a Trib subscriber. I want to believe this. Its just that I used to spend an hour reading the Trib each day. Now its more like fifteen minutes. I read the Trib for local news and only local reporters write those. Whose left to tell them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just commented on Rob Karwath&#8217;s limp defense of journalists getting into bed with advertisers. No doubt Rob would resent that analysis and I&#8217;ll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20752,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/20752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}