David Simon, Executive Producer, "The Wire"

Does the News Matter to Anyone Anymore?

January 22, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

I understand the economic pressures on newspapers. And though I fled the profession a decade ago for the fleshpots of television, I’ve heard tell of the horrors of department-store consolidation and the decline in advertising, of Craigslist and Google and Yahoo. I understand the vagaries of Wall Street, the fealty to the media-chain stockholders, the primacy of the price-per-share. What I don’t understand is this: Isn’t the news itself still valuable to anyone? In any format, through any medium–isn’t an understanding of the events of the day still a salable commodity?

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