Interview with a Professor of Journalism: What Have We Here?

10. Your most recent book is X in which you propose the question: Is a return to old-style individual ownership sparking a renaissance for the newspaper business, and if so, how?

Have you drawn any further conclusions? Renaissance or back to the Dark Ages? As you know, Paul Revere was a news guy and his political accounts figured prominently, swaying colonists left and right, and he helped close down a royal-apologist paper that promoted a 'balanced' picture of the Boston Massacre, where, wouldn't you know it, a recently freed Black man was the first to be shot by The Man (in Red, not blue, back then). Isn't that a danger of mogulism -- that Bezos versus Murdoch may muddy the waters even more? And we end up with jello wrassling journalism?

11. Are you working on anything interesting these days?

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John -

I'm going to take a pass on this. Our interests do not coincide. No offense.

D-

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Alright, thanks anyway, D-.

Regards,

John

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