{"id":340,"date":"2012-09-20T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawahrman.com\/wp\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:48:55","slug":"the-medias-1-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/the-medias-1-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"The media&#8217;s 1 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under Things That Make Me Swear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Advance Publications, owned by the Newhouse family, said Thursday it would scale back the printed edition [of The Times-Picayune, a 175-year-old fixture in New Orleans] to three days a week and impose staff cuts as a way to reduce costs&#8230;. The decision will leave New Orleans as the most prominent American city without a newspaper that is printed every day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/25\/business\/media\/in-latest-sign-of-print-upheaval-new-orleans-paper-scaling-back.html\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Newhouse is the 51st-richest person in the United States, Forbes reports. The magazine places the Advance Publications chief\u2019s net worth at $6.6 billion. His brother, Conde Nast Chairman Si Newhouse, Jr., places a little higher: No. 46, with a net worth of $7.4 billion. Donald\u2019s net worth was $5.9 billion in Sept. 2011, Forbes estimates, and Si\u2019s was $6.6 billion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/latest-news\/mediawire\/189139\/advances-donald-newhouse-among-nations-richest-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The media is clearly not exempt from the tyranny of the 1 percent. Just how many <em>billions<\/em> are enough for the people who run the media? At the very real cost of important coverage of issues that matter to us ordinary have-nots? It&#8217;s indecent and shameful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under Things That Make Me Swear: Advance Publications, owned by the Newhouse family, said Thursday it would scale back the printed edition [of The Times-Picayune, a 175-year-old fixture in New Orleans] to three days a week and impose staff cuts as a way to reduce costs&#8230;. The decision will leave New Orleans as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,30,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}