Re:The war to sell you a mattress
by danpalmer on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:46AM
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This is the reason why I’m traditional journalism there is a very strict divide between the content and business sides of the company. The journalists don’t know about the deals, and the business side don’t get to provide input on the content side. Unfortunately in these smaller, newer forms of content business, those concerns are just ignored.
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Erm, the traditional journalism buisness knows ads as well. And there are countless examples of articles being stopped investigating/published, because the main add customer objected and threatened to leave
Or when it so happens, that the boss of the media concern is a golfclub buddy of the senator who is accused of something.
etc. etc.
It does happen, but most of the industry has a really strong negative reaction to the journalists and business side mixing in particular ways. It's a cultural divide that was established a long time ago and is still very important now.