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Salon: Public Ownership Fails Newspapers

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted May 9, 2007 12:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – The looming Murdochization of the Wall Street Journal highlights what people should have realized long ago, writes Gary Weiss: just how disastrous public ownership is to the newspaper business. Every time that investors' bottom lines are matched against journalistic integrity, journalism gets tramped. "The...   Read full story »

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