Skybird
07-28-13, 05:06 AM
Europe's biggest publisher is selling off many of its magazines and newspapers, some of them having been institutions since the beginning of the corporation.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/axel-springer-sells-off-clutch-of-newspapers-and-magazines-a-913296.html
Two things to be added: the cartel guardians still have not spoken, and the new owners, if the sale gets thrpough, are financially vulnerable and maybe will find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew. They also have a reputation of being tough when it comes to cutting jobs. This could lead to a further erosion of the journalistic quality of the newspapers and magazines affected.
The newspaper market dies a slow and miserbale death. What it gets replaced with, is just a facade with nothing behind it. It's the same with newspapers in other countries, Europe and America alike. This, plus a.) growing control and censoring of journalistic work by ideological lobby groups and their pressure (political correctness), and b.) governments increasingly manipulating the press beyond what they always tried, even openly attacking the very basis of journalism, like source protection (see several such cases in the US).
In some years we maybe will not even missd a "free" press anymore, if it is to be no more by then, because of the quality already being so bad then that the absence of such papers is hardly a negative, but indeed is a relief.
Infantilization is the motto of today's culture - and that is reflected in its products in all clearity.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/axel-springer-sells-off-clutch-of-newspapers-and-magazines-a-913296.html
Two things to be added: the cartel guardians still have not spoken, and the new owners, if the sale gets thrpough, are financially vulnerable and maybe will find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew. They also have a reputation of being tough when it comes to cutting jobs. This could lead to a further erosion of the journalistic quality of the newspapers and magazines affected.
The newspaper market dies a slow and miserbale death. What it gets replaced with, is just a facade with nothing behind it. It's the same with newspapers in other countries, Europe and America alike. This, plus a.) growing control and censoring of journalistic work by ideological lobby groups and their pressure (political correctness), and b.) governments increasingly manipulating the press beyond what they always tried, even openly attacking the very basis of journalism, like source protection (see several such cases in the US).
In some years we maybe will not even missd a "free" press anymore, if it is to be no more by then, because of the quality already being so bad then that the absence of such papers is hardly a negative, but indeed is a relief.
Infantilization is the motto of today's culture - and that is reflected in its products in all clearity.