{"id":1665,"date":"2010-05-03T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/05\/03\/media-chiefs-pay-day\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:43:25","slug":"media-chiefs-pay-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/05\/03\/media-chiefs-pay-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Chiefs&rsquo; Pay Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m now reading <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Life-American-Journalism-Revolution\/dp\/1568586051\" target=\"_blank\">The Death &amp; Life of American Journalism<\/a> <\/em>whose authors advocate for public funding of journalism outlets.&#160; They claim for-profit news enterprises simply cannot keep up with the demand for profits from investors and make the investments necessary to attract enough readers to remain viable.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>It seems again the capitalist model is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/03\/business\/media\/03pay.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">not working out<\/a> for the front-line workers of their customers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The media industry may be going through some rough times, with the landscape changing day to day, but at least one aspect is business as usual: big paydays for the people at the top. <\/p>\n<p>Top executives at the country\u2019s largest media companies continued to reel in multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2009, a year of widespread cost-cutting throughout the industry. In several cases, the packages even increased from the year before. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m now reading The Death &amp; Life of American Journalism whose authors advocate for public funding of journalism outlets.&#160; They claim for-profit news enterprises simply cannot keep up with the demand for profits from investors and make the investments necessary to attract enough readers to remain viable.&#160; It seems again the capitalist model is not&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/05\/03\/media-chiefs-pay-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136,145],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}