Thursday, March 4, 2010

Makes perfect sense

Just curious...

If the print product of a media company is subsidizing the online ventures, why would you jeopardize the print product by pushing all your efforts to online?

If the print product goes under (or is rendered so irrelevant as to be useless), just what is the online division planning on putting online?

And if the online product is so embarrassingly unedited, inaccurate and inept, does that in itself reflect poorly and eventually continue the downfall of the print product?

Finally, why are accountants running media companies when it's obvious none of those accountants pay any attention to the news and have no idea how it's produced?

And so it goes.

1 comment:

JACK TIDE said...

I agree. Print media, hard copy, has it's flaws as well, regarding ineffectual or just plain lazy investigation, or errors. The difference I think is in the editorial staff. Printing journals, books, magazines, etc, costs money and so the companies want to give their subscribers a good, well informed product. Online journalism has been tainted by Wiki-type publishing. Most publishing houses don't accredit any e-zine material that the author has had published. Maybe it will change though as we, the subscribers, demand more.

-Jack Tide.