{"id":1537,"date":"2008-01-21T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2008-01-21T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T19:43:20","slug":"does-the-news-matter-to-anyone-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/does-the-news-matter-to-anyone-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the News Matter To Anyone Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/18\/AR2008011802874_pf.html\">David Simon asks, in <i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/a>:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I don&#8217;t understand is this:<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the news itself still valuable to anyone? In any format, through any medium &#8212; isn&#8217;t an understanding of the events of the day still a salable commodity? Or were we kidding ourselves? Was a newspaper a viable entity only so long as it had classifieds, comics and the latest sports scores?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say that, even harder to think it. By that premise, what all of us pretended to regard as a viable commodity &#8212; indeed, as the source of all that was purposeful and heroic &#8212; was, in fact, an intellectual vanity.<\/p>\n<p>Newsprint itself is an anachronism. But was there a moment before the deluge of the Internet when news organizations might have better protected themselves and their product? When they might have &#8212; as one, industry-wide &#8212; declared that their online advertising would be profitable, that their Web sites would, in fact, charge for providing a rare and worthy service?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Simon asks, in The Washington Post: What I don&#8217;t understand is this: Isn&#8217;t the news itself still valuable to anyone? In any format, through any medium &#8212; isn&#8217;t an understanding of the events of the day still a salable commodity? Or were we kidding ourselves? Was a newspaper a viable entity only so long as it had classifieds, comics and the latest sports scores? It&#8217;s hard to say that, even harder to think it. By that premise, what all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44,50,103,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-david-simon","category-domestic-affairs","category-journalism","category-the-wire","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-oN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}