Dallas News Decides That Journalists Should Report To Ad Sales
from the church-and-state-is-soooo-last-millennium dept
John Obeidin points us to the news that The Dallas News has basically wiped away the standard "church" and "state" separation of journalists and ad sales and has reorganized such that editorial and journalism positions now report to ad sales managers (nicely renamed "general managers"). Of course, historically, newspapers have always been clear to separate the two. There's no reason why this needs to be the case, but it can certainly raise questions about the objectivity of the reporting.Of course, it's interesting that this is happening just days after those new FTC guidelines on making it clear if content is somehow sponsored. So, will the Dallas News now need to be more clear about its advertising partners, since the paper is now admitting that its editorial content will now be closely tied to its advertising relationships?
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Not honest with the facts, but honest on where they stand.
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Cost-cutting manuever
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Nothing New
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local insight
That being said, "health/education, entertainment, travel/luxury, automotive, real estate, communications, preprints/grocery, recruitment, retail/finance, and SMB (small and medium businesses)/interactive" (the sections quoted in editorandpublisher.com's article) are mostly ads anyway!
Real estate? Ads for used homes (Realtor ads) and ads for new subdivisions.
Preprints/grocery? Those are just ads
Recruitment? Aren't these just help wanted ads?
Retail/finance? I assume they mean ad-driven content, not the business page.
Automotive? These have been ads for years.
So I fail to see the controversy. All of these sections are either already almost entirely ads or are sections that really drive sales of the paper (for example the entertainment section).
It doesn't seem like they're having their local/national news reporters, business writers or anyone like that report to ad men (and women).
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You have got to be kidding me
I think this just goes to show where most of the US mentality is. They're all lying to us, so who cares, seems to be the answer everyone is giving.
I'd rather have no news than falsified information.
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