Newscorps Close to Deal for Newsday
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
NewsCorps is close to sealing the deal with the Tribune Company for its struggling Newsday publication. Jeff Jarvis , blogger at Buzz Machine, discusses the balance between free press and corporate control.
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Does anyone know if this proposed sale also includes the other Tribune paper in NY, AMNY? I know it's no great piece of journalism, but it is free and totally a part of my morning routine (guilty pleasure). I've got to think that News corp will see no reason to keep this going if they get their paws on it.
Newsday's purchase by someone like Rupert Murdoch would certainly mean one thing to me. I will have to dig HARDER for sources of professional, in-depth, news and points of view not designed to provoke bias or irrational, solely emotional points of view.
This guy is so wrong about media consolidation. I don't care about the so-called internet alternative. There are still plenty of people out there who get their news from newspapers, magazines, and broadcast TV. Hell, I can't even read copy from a computer screen. At best I have to recompose everything in Word and then print it out.
What's the point of having three or four or five supposedly different newspapers when they are all owned by the same person?
It might be time to lobby congress and FCC to decouple the News component of the major networks, and have a BBC like organization to take over the news functions that are essential to our liberties.
Free Market
Start your own paper
But put it on line.
i gave up on newspapers a while back. with fewer newpapers people will have to look other places for REAL news.
ARE NEWSPAPERS STRUGGLING IN THE U.K.? IF NOT, WHY NOT??
I have suspected a subtle shift in tone after years of reading the paper but it didn't hit me until I read a box under an editoral piece directing me to check for more opinions at Fox News. Just this past weekend I cancelled by subscriotion to the Wall Street Journal after 5 years.
Isn't dangerous that such an influential republican partisan have too much power over the New York area papers?
Murdoch is a media consuming machine, he's good at what he does but that doesn't mean what he does is good for mass media as a whole. Do we want Newsday to become NY's "The Sun?" I can't really see Long Islander's lining up to be the "Page 3 girl..."
We need to resist the tabloidization of our news systems. Resist Rupert Murdoch's global empire.
Brauchli is the canary in the coal mine, w Murdoch's crapmachine being the poison -- I promised myself I'd stop reading WSJ if Brauchli left. Sad.
Certainly horrifying to think Murdoch is aiming to make the NY Post "the paper of record."
does this matter since everyone knows that newscorp are a buch of hacks i.e. fox news, post?
The NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, and now Newsday... Dying medium or not, where are trust-busters when you need them?
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