Russell Baker: Goodbye to Newspapers?
In the New York Review of Books, ex-Times columnist Russell Baker wrote a long eulogy for the print newspaper, which he views as being killed by heartless owners and a race for the bottom line that neglects the truth in favor of whatever profit can be made. There’s probably some truth in that — Baker is big on John S. Carroll‘s theory of the “post-corporate” newspaper, as exemplified by one Rupert Murdoch:
“Rupert Murdoch of course has long spread melancholy in newsrooms around the world, but it was the disclosure in May that the Bancroft family, which controls The Wall Street Journal, might be ready to sell him their paper for five billion dollars that really struck at journalism’s soul.
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