{"id":4877,"date":"2012-11-05T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2012-11-05T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:00:45","slug":"is-corporate-media-the-new-funding-model-for-serious-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"Is Corporate Media The New Funding Model For Serious Journalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2012\/11\/is_corporate_me.php\">Tom Foremski<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>As the business models for serious journalism continue to erode where will we get the quality media we need as a society to make important decisions about our future?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been warning people: &#8220;Special interest groups will gladly pay for the media they want you to read, but you won&#8217;t pay for the media you need to read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Software engineers have a saying: GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.<\/p>\n<p>If you start with garbage data you will get a garbage result. That&#8217;s the future we are heading towards, a future where our media is corrupted with information that serves the goals of special interest groups.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at Australia where multi-billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart has been trying to acquire Fairfax Media, publisher of top newspapers, in a bid to counter anti-mining forces. We&#8217;ll see more of that as newspapers and other traditional media continue to weaken.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Foremski: As the business models for serious journalism continue to erode where will we get the quality media we need as a society to make important decisions about our future? I&#8217;ve been warning people: &#8220;Special interest groups will gladly pay for the media they want you to read, but you won&#8217;t pay for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877"}],"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=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}