‘The Wire’ creator David Simon on the state of journalism
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under state of newspapers
Doing a little “tab cleaning” today in Firefox and wanted to share this quote from David Simon:
The newsroom where I used to work (the Baltimore Sun) had 460 people. Now it has 300. And there are people out there who just don’t care. They’ll make more money putting out a mediocre paper than they would putting out a better paper. They know this. It’s their equation. They’re quite content with mediocrity.
And within that culture we have people that are saying, ‘oh no, we’re going to do more with less,’ which is one of the great lies of the 21st century. What it means is we’re going to less with less. And that’s the nature of what journalism is becoming.
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