{"id":3027,"date":"2007-09-27T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2007-09-27T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T13:21:55","slug":"on_newspapers_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"On Newspapers: Why a former Publisher Won&#8217;t Buy a Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2007\/09\/newpapers-screw.html\">Henry Blodget<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I don\u2019t subscribe to the newspaper my family sold to a chain in the mid-1990s. While I miss the New York Times crossword puzzle, I finally stopped my subscription, because I really wasn\u2019t interested in reading the generic news that has replaced the community coverage we used to provide.<br \/>\nIn more than 30 years of newspaper management, I experienced the transformation described in your white paper on Media 3.0, as we faced increasing competition from direct mail, segmented cable and the myriad of other choices served to advertisers.<br \/>\nBut there is one underlying reason why newspapers will not be able to take advantage of the opportunities so well presented in your paper: They simply lack the intellectual capacity&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget: I don\u2019t subscribe to the newspaper my family sold to a chain in the mid-1990s. While I miss the New York Times crossword puzzle, I finally stopped my subscription, because I really wasn\u2019t interested in reading the generic news that has replaced the community coverage we used to provide. In more than 30 [&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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}