Comments on: “Independent” Mainstream Media: Advertisers Called Shots on Detroit Free Press Coverage http://www.debbieschlussel.com/11424/independent-mainstream-media-advertisers-called-shots-on-detroit-free-press-coverage/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:41:43 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Mudbug http://www.debbieschlussel.com/11424/independent-mainstream-media-advertisers-called-shots-on-detroit-free-press-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-144465 Mudbug Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:12:38 +0000 http://www.debbieschlussel.com/?p=11424#comment-144465 Guess you didn't notice that the Wall Street Journal who ran the original story on this, (guess you don't feel attribution is appropriate), ran a correction that supported the Free Press contention that nobody dictated anything to them. <strong>M: Quit lying. Not only did I attribute, I quoted and linked to the WSJ. And there was no such correction that "supported the Free Press contention." You must be one of the Freep "reporters" on the payroll of the paper's, um, "business partners." DS</strong> Guess you didn’t notice that the Wall Street Journal who ran the original story on this, (guess you don’t feel attribution is appropriate), ran a correction that supported the Free Press contention that nobody dictated anything to them.

M: Quit lying. Not only did I attribute, I quoted and linked to the WSJ. And there was no such correction that “supported the Free Press contention.” You must be one of the Freep “reporters” on the payroll of the paper’s, um, “business partners.” DS

]]> By: JF http://www.debbieschlussel.com/11424/independent-mainstream-media-advertisers-called-shots-on-detroit-free-press-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-126289 JF Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:09:35 +0000 http://www.debbieschlussel.com/?p=11424#comment-126289 Maybe of interest: the end of the trail for newspapers, etc.: there is "newspaper death watch", dealing with the demise and closure of newspapers, often providing the essential financial data to all that: http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ and then there is a site dealing with folding magazines: http://www.magazinedeathpool.com/ Also of interest might be the fate of a website set up by journalists of a folded paper, the Rocky Mountain News. This one is of interest because it gives a proper of the vanishing readers. There were just 200 subscribers left over from a once pretty formidable newspaper with a readership of maybe close to 200 000 (my guess here) years ago. http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-newspaper-staffers-denver-news-site-to-end-2009-10 Maybe of interest: the end of the trail for newspapers, etc.:
there is “newspaper death watch”, dealing with the demise
and closure of newspapers, often providing the essential
financial data to all that:
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/

and then there is a site dealing with folding magazines:
http://www.magazinedeathpool.com/

Also of interest might be the fate of a website set up by
journalists of a folded paper, the Rocky Mountain News.
This one is of interest because it gives a proper of the
vanishing readers. There were just 200 subscribers left over
from a once pretty formidable newspaper with a readership
of maybe close to 200 000 (my guess here) years ago.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-newspaper-staffers-denver-news-site-to-end-2009-10

]]> By: Douglas S. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/11424/independent-mainstream-media-advertisers-called-shots-on-detroit-free-press-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-125898 Douglas S. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:13:49 +0000 http://www.debbieschlussel.com/?p=11424#comment-125898 Check out WATCHDOG.COM The man that runs this website was supposed to be the consumer watchdog for the Hartford Courant which is a Connecticut newspaper. The only problem was that management gave him a list of advertisers he was not allowed to say anything negative about. Type "fired from courant" into the watchdog web site search window to find his stories about this. Check out WATCHDOG.COM The man that runs this website was supposed to be the consumer watchdog for the Hartford Courant which is a Connecticut newspaper. The only problem was that management gave him a list of advertisers he was not allowed to say anything negative about. Type “fired from courant” into the watchdog web site search window to find his stories about this.

]]> By: BB http://www.debbieschlussel.com/11424/independent-mainstream-media-advertisers-called-shots-on-detroit-free-press-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-125889 BB Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:58:34 +0000 http://www.debbieschlussel.com/?p=11424#comment-125889 Well they got caught. I agree with you, Debbie, but the real story here is that they are so loose about this that the Freep was actually caught. I don't which "news" media outlets are not whoring themselves one way or the other--are there any? Well they got caught. I agree with you, Debbie, but the real story here is that they are so loose about this that the Freep was actually caught. I don’t which “news” media outlets are not whoring themselves one way or the other–are there any?

]]> By: NormanF http://www.debbieschlussel.com/11424/independent-mainstream-media-advertisers-called-shots-on-detroit-free-press-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-125835 NormanF Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:20:43 +0000 http://www.debbieschlussel.com/?p=11424#comment-125835 Just follow the money... besides their blatant partisanship and ideological bias, today's newspapers and TV news shows have to make a profit. And that means they have to compromise editorial independence to remain alive. If no one buys it, they're out of business. We know now there's a lot more the MSM has been keeping its audience from learning about - then again its the only business that can tell their customers to shove it! They're still declining. Just follow the money… besides their blatant partisanship and ideological bias, today’s newspapers and TV news shows have to make a profit. And that means they have to compromise editorial independence to remain alive. If no one buys it, they’re out of business. We know now there’s a lot more the MSM has been keeping its audience from learning about – then again its the only business that can tell their customers to shove it! They’re still declining.

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