{"id":777,"date":"2009-04-10T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:39:43","slug":"selling-out-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling out for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090410\/ts_alt_afp\/usadvertisingmediaindustrynewspaperslatimes\">Uproar over &#8216;news story&#8217; ad on front page of LA Times<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement, for the NBC television series &#8220;Southland,&#8221; appeared on page one of the Times on Thursday. Although it was labelled &#8220;advertisement,&#8221; the ad resembled a news story complete with a bold-type headline.<\/p>\n<p>According to the blog MediaMemo, more than 100 staffers at the newspaper signed a petition protesting the appearance of the fake news story ad on the front page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We the journalists of the newsroom strenuously object to the decision to sell an ad, in the form of a phony news story, on the front page of the Los Angeles Times,&#8221; mediamemo.allthingsd.com quoted the petition as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NBC ad may have provided some quick cash, but it has caused incalculable damage to this institution,&#8221; it said. &#8220;Placing a fake news article on A-1 makes a mockery of our integrity and our journalistic standards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our willingness to sell our most precious real estate to an advertiser is embarrassing and demoralizing,&#8221; the petition said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the LATimes&#8217; &#8220;journalists&#8221; have a problem not so much with selling out as making a profit for it, judging from their behavior in the last election cycle, in which the front page was repeatedly used for unpaid campaign ads for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they didn&#8217;t find that &#8220;embarrassing and demoralizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;mockery of our integrity and our journalistic standards,&#8221; indeed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=aecf8537-9982-8135-8c3c-1f3b65d2e1bd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-777\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-777\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-777\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/10\/selling-out-for-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uproar over &#8216;news story&#8217; ad on front page of LA Times An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move. 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