It never ceases to amaze me, some of the wildthoughts and assertions that come from those who work with us and thosein our industry,” says MediaNews Group CEO William Dean Singleton. “Somehow, those who write and edit the news are just so …” he pauses, searching for the right word, “so … divorced from the reality of the business.
It is hard, looking at the situation of newspaper companies today, to make a believable argument that the journalistic mentality has been the ruin of the industry, that the business mentality isn’t somehow at least as responsible.