Mark Potts posted this a while back but I have to admit that I am one of those who thought the same thing he did when I saw this exchange between Sam Zell and a journalist at the Orlando Sentinel. (Read full post here.)
There's nothing I can really add to Mark's post other than agree with it and hope to bring it more attention.
If you watch the video of Zell muttering "fuck you" after responding to an Orlando Sentinel photog's insistent questions about journalistic quality and think, "Right on, Sam," you're a Recovering Journalist.
If you don't, you're still stuck in denial, a state of mind that has no idea that journalism is a business, doesn't get that it matters (far) more what readers think about stories than what journalists think of them, pines for the extremely bygone days when newspapers dominated the news universe—and is walking straight off a cliff clinging firmly to all of those romantic, noble but no longer realistic notions. Buh-bye. Nice working with you. You're toast.
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