Re:A Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI
by mseebach on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:54AM
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Is it really strange? Isn't somewhere on the loss-leader/freemium spectrum, just on a grander scale than what we're used to from con/prosumer webapps?
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Re:A Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI
by dredmorbius on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:39PM
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The model is far more established than you might think. The first general-circulation newspapers in the US were largely party political organs, some of which retain elements of that in their names: the Arizona Republic was originally the Arizona Republican. Papers with Union in their titles occasionally reflect a labour bent.
That faded with the advent of mass-market advertising, which grew tremendously from about 1860 onward, and becoming a mounting concern in the 1890s and 1900s.
I've mentioned Hamilton Holt's short book (notes of a lecture, really), Commercialism and Journalism (1909) a few times. The first section is a very good breakdown of the role of advertising in media.