It chokes out entrepreneurialism. I know that newspapers must be profitable to survive, but we are not talking here about making money versus not making money. We are talking about a business that makes higher profit margins than most businesses, and wants to keep on doing it no matter what other realities may come to bear, no matter how it may go to the heart of what we do. When the only community we recognize is the community of shareholders, we are in very perilous waters. She was part of a group I was in recently, a group discussing the current state of newspapering.
Newsrooms are disgustingly corporate.
Everything is about making money. There's a complete lack of professional development. People are stretched thinner and thinner. The environment in newsrooms right now is very, very strange. We are all concerned about the future.