Comments on: Life After Newspapers? Hints in Menand’s History of The Village Voice http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/01/05/life-after-newspapers-hints-in-menands-history-of-the-village-voice/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Brian Hayashi http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2009/01/05/life-after-newspapers-hints-in-menands-history-of-the-village-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-325795 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:47:06 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2009/01/05/life-after-newspapers-hints-in-menands-history-of-the-village-voice/#comment-325795 What a blast from the past!!

If you look at the origins of a lot of mass media, you’ll see them arising out of economic downturns. Original cable television programming owes a debt of gratitude to the 70s downturn, and if memory serves me right, Fortune Magazine and Ad Age both found their footing just as the Great Depression was underway. If you’ve ever done a tour of the National Enquirer offices, you know how spartan a newsroom can be.

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