http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/11/08/santorum-feeds-the-hand-that-bites-him/ Where media and technology meet Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/11/08/santorum-feeds-the-hand-that-bites-him/#comment-332673 Bill Jones Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:24:16 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/11/08/santorum-feeds-the-hand-that-bites-him/#comment-332673 The media cares more about making money than they do about ideological consistency, and controversy sells newspapers. So it not surprising that the Philly should hire an adversary like Santorum. The executives at media organizations care about profits. Take TimeWarner, the world’s largest media company. The NewsVisual article http://www.newsvisual.com/newsvisual/2007/11/timewarners-dir.html shows that their board members all have business backgrounds, not journalism backgrounds. The companies that own newspapers are the same. The media cares more about making money than they do about ideological consistency, and controversy sells newspapers. So it not surprising that the Philly should hire an adversary like Santorum. The executives at media organizations care about profits. Take TimeWarner, the world’s largest media company. The NewsVisual article http://www.newsvisual.com/newsvisual/200 7/11/timewarners-dir.html shows that their board members all have business backgrounds, not journalism backgrounds. The companies that own newspapers are the same.

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