{"id":378,"date":"2004-07-23T03:06:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2004-07-23T03:06:33","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T03:06:33","slug":"more_on_local_media_monopolies_from_south_dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"More on Local Media Monopolies &#8211; from South Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daschlevthune.typepad.com\/daschle_v_thune\/2004\/07\/more_judges_obs.html\">Jon Lauck summarizes<\/a> a number of recent posts on the implications of local media monopolies, particularily on our democracy.<br \/>\nCorporate earnings pressure is certainly one thing, but I believe there are other factors at play such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insulated environment:  The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 sanctioned newspaper monopolies.   Competition is a good thing, however in this case, the Act has simply created a general malaise.\n<li>Lowered expectations:  Rather than informing readers with depth, many newspaper&#8217;s have adopted the USA Today &#8220;McPaper&#8221; approach.  This flies against internet users demands: lots of information quickly and deep information (google and others) when I want it.\n<li>Hiring:  The sports page often has more depth than others.\n<li>Failure to take advantage of new tools &#038; media.<\/ul>\n<p>Money is not the only issue, in fact, I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s the issue.   Leadership is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Lauck summarizes a number of recent posts on the implications of local media monopolies, particularily on our democracy. Corporate earnings pressure is certainly one thing, but I believe there are other factors at play such as: Insulated environment: The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 sanctioned newspaper monopolies. Competition is a good thing, however in [&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\/378"}],"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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}