The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager

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The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager

A century-old critique of everything that’s wrong with media values today.

via Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/30/bliven/

so long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests of the former, not the intellectual interests of the latter