{"id":1290,"date":"2005-04-22T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2005-04-22T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T00:00:48","slug":"murdoch_the_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch: The End of Newspapers as We Know Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3896039\">The Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>?I BELIEVE too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers, ?Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, one of the world&#8217;s largest media companies, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors last week. No wonder that people, and in particular the young, are ditching their newspapers. Today&#8217;s teens, twenty- and thirty-somethings ?don&#8217;t want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what&#8217;s important,? Mr Murdoch said, ?and they certainly don&#8217;t want news presented as gospel.? And yet, he went on, ?as an industry, many of us have been remarkably, unaccountably, complacent.?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download Murdoch&#8217;s speech for free from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/adbl\/store\/product.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0531384499.1114140590@@@@&#038;BV_EngineID=ccchaddehdkeeegcefecegedfhfdhfg.0&#038;uniqueKey=1114140604933&#038;pageType=preliminaryResults&#038;productID=FR_SPAN_050413\">audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: ?I BELIEVE too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers, ?Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, one of the world&#8217;s largest media companies, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors last week. No wonder that people, and in particular the young, are ditching their newspapers. Today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}