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How Would This Revenue-Sharing Conflict Go Over Now?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by WriteThinking, Oct 14, 2009.

  1. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    This week being the 10-year anniversary of the Staples Center revenue-sharing conflict that was a big, galvanizing deal at the Los Angeles Times back when it happened, I wonder how such a situation would go over, and how it would be received these days.

    Take a look, and see what you think.

    http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2009/10/ten-years-later-los-angeles-times.html

    But, with the business in a severe transition (some would say devolving), and with news reporting and writing styles changing, standards lowering, ethics perspectives evolving and lines of separation blurring -- and, now, with a certain amount of financial desperation seemingly setting in -- would newsrooms respond as the LAT's did during this much-heralded brouhaha?

    Somehow, unfortunately, I doubt it.

    That's in large part because of the vastly changed backdrop. At that time, as you'll read below, the Times' quarterly profit was set at a vibrant, healthy $102 million, and there was a circulation increase of "only" .3 percent.

    http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Error+by+Times+Publisher+Raises+Ire+in+Newsroom.(Brief+Article)-a057542132

    Wow. Who wouldn't be thrilled with such numbers nowadays?

    So, the perspective on, and probably, the reactions to, this scenario would likely be just as vastly different.
     
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