Journalism and New Economy

Abstract

In the presence of the invasion of economics into ali aspects of common life, both inside and outside journalism, in the presence of the very conversion of the communication groups into great economical forces, some changes and disarrangements are taking place within the media framework, that affect its contents directly, and therefore the result of what we hove been calling the job of telling what happens in the world.
Out of the great failure that meant the information of the so-called New Economy, this article intends to overview some of the causes that exp/ain the present contradiction: a powerful com­pany, supposedly independent, free to inform, that, eager to reduce costs and obtain imme­diate benefits, brings its own reliability to an end. Business comes first. Selling is what counts.