{"id":1245,"date":"2009-01-07T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/01\/the_newspaper_as_politburo\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T08:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T16:45:22","slug":"the_newspaper_as_politburo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_newspaper_as_politburo.php","title":{"rendered":"The newspaper as politburo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Guardian<\/i> posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/jan\/05\/clay-shirky-future-newspapers-digital-media\">some interesting thoughts from Clay Shirky<\/a> on what might happen to traditional media in 2009. In a nutshell, he says, &#8221;2009 is going to be a bloodbath.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>While traditional publishing companies and nonprofit cultural organizations are obviously different beasts in many respects, they have eerie similarities as well. Both represent fairly well established assumptions about how content is created and distributed, and where value should be extracted in the business process. Both are having those foundational assumptions challenged by the rise of new media and its tendencies toward user-created and user-curated content. Says Shirky:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great misfortune of newspapers in this era is that they were such a<br \/>\ngood idea for such a long time that people felt the newspaper business<br \/>\nmodel was part of a deep truth about the world, rather than just the<br \/>\nway things happened to be. It&#8217;s like the fall of communism, where a lot<br \/>\nof the eastern European satellite states had an easier time because<br \/>\nthere were still people alive who remembered life before the Soviet<br \/>\nUnion &#8212; nobody in Russia remembered it. Newspaper people are like<br \/>\nRussians, in a way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the coming year is, indeed, a bloodbath for traditional media business models, it will be well worth watching what innovations and new insights come out the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian posts some interesting thoughts from Clay Shirky on what might happen to traditional media in 2009. In a nutshell, he says, &#8221;2009 is going to be a bloodbath.&#8221; While traditional publishing companies and nonprofit cultural organizations are obviously different beasts in many respects, they have eerie similarities as well. Both represent fairly well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}