{"id":10787,"date":"2018-05-15T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:08:42","slug":"death-of-a-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10787","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a truth universally acknowledged by those who don\u2019t let sentiment cloud their thinking that the newspaper\u2019s time will soon pass\u2014except for rare titles like the\u00a0<i>New York Times\u00a0<\/i>and a few others that can attract national audiences. \u201cThe old model of a general-purpose newspaper fit the industrial age when advertisers needed mass audiences to sell the products of mass production. But the marketplace no longer supports the model of a few messages to many people. Now it is many messages, each to a few people,\u201d Meyer tells me via email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jack Shafer reviews the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/05\/13\/denver-post-profits-newspaper-industry-218360\">common story told of a newspaper&#8217;s death<\/a> and how it may be the other way around. He notes the warning signs of the death of this medium have been issued as early as 1976. (via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a truth universally acknowledged by those who don\u2019t let sentiment cloud their thinking that the newspaper\u2019s time will soon pass\u2014except for rare titles like the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0and a few others that can attract national audiences. \u201cThe old model of a general-purpose newspaper fit the industrial age when advertisers needed mass audiences to sell the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death of a Newspaper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-press"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}