I remember in the 1980's Conrad Black was buying up newspapers in Canada and around the world. After purchase he sent in his henchman to walk through the newsroom and fire every other reporter. Blacks goal was to fill the spaces between ads with cheap news stories. Wire services did well, investigative journalism did not. He lobbied Buckingham palace for a knighthood and was later stripped of it after being convicted of defrauding company shareholders of $6m dollars. That is the history in a nutshell of the third largest MSM company in the world in the 90's
Bad journalism was on the rise long before those competitive sources arrived on the scene
I remember in the 1980's Conrad Black was buying up newspapers in Canada and around the world. After purchase he sent in his henchman to walk through the newsroom and fire every other reporter. Blacks goal was to fill the spaces between ads with cheap news stories. Wire services did well, investigative journalism did not. He lobbied Buckingham palace for a knighthood and was later stripped of it after being convicted of defrauding company shareholders of $6m dollars. That is the history in a nutshell of the third largest MSM company in the world in the 90's
Going back to William Randall Hearst.