The Voice is running a three-part series on the problems media consolidation poses for democracy. Part one includes the following:
"Award-winning media critic Ted Glasser says the Bay Area's media consolidation is emblematic of a larger problem and leads to three things: fewer journalists, homogenization of coverage (with the same story appearing in multiple newspapers), and poor media coverage of journalism itself."Glass houses, guys.
The article is written by the publisher of the Pacific Sun, which was an independent paper up until a few years ago, when it was purchased by Embarcadero Publishing Company. The story has already appeared in other understaffed EPC papers, including the flagship Palo Alto Weekly (where readers had plenty of critiques of the article itself), the Pleasanton Weekly and the Danville Weekly.
I can't decide whether this is actually ironic, or if it just looks really silly.
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I slightly disagree - of course I haven't read the series. But I do think it's okay for the paper to write about that issue, even if it's one it is undergoing. It's the separation of corporate and editorial...
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