it’s about money, not journalism

Book review:

Newspapers and Democracy:

International Essays on a Changing Medium

Anthony Smith, ed.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1980

Newspapers and Democracy may be of most interest to informed readers who understand the basics of the history and the modern business model of newspapers, and want more historical context.

The essays were published in 1980. There is no mention of the internet or Google or social media or any of the digital manifestations that have crowded the traditional newspaper audience into a small corner.

There is no substantial or convincing assessment of the putative public service mission of “the press” that has been blatantly claimed by newspaper owners and journalists for at least more than 60 years.

Newspapers and Democracy is a museum piece, not an explanation of the alleged “power” of the alleged “free press.”

* * * * * *

–

Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,

and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)

and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

* * * * * *

Newspapers and Democracy (book review)