{"id":177787,"date":"2019-06-10T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/10\/tweet-of-the-day-121\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T23:52:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/10\/tweet-of-the-day-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you gave a billion dollars to the top 10 news companies, the chance of a dime being spent on news would be pretty slim. You might as well give a pound of hamburger to a shark and hope to get meat loaf. <\/p>\n<p>How many billions have passed through their hands in the last decade?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Yelvington (@yelvington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yelvington\/status\/1138119237342584832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember this whenever the big media starts whining about how Google News is so unfair to make money from directing readers to their websites.<\/p>\n<p>These days, these organizations are run by finance types, and finance types don&#8217;t care about journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Finance and journalism mix like Ebola and French kissing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you gave a billion dollars to the top 10 news companies, the chance of a dime being spent on news would be pretty slim. You might as well give a pound of hamburger to a shark and hope to get meat loaf. How many billions have passed through their hands in the last decade? &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,464,490,523],"class_list":["post-177787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-good-writing","tag-hack-journalism","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}