Strange Bedfellows: What Journalism Can Learn From Adult Entertainment
Posted on | June 7, 2010 | No Comments
Posted on Poynter.org by Andy Medici at 6:25 AM on Jun. 3, 2010
Let’s role-play for a second.
Imagine you are working in an industry that has been battered by the recent recession and rapid advances in technology. Instead of paying for teams of professionals, people are going online to find new content like yours or create their own. The Internet has opened the door to thousands of competitors, all offering content that appeals to just about any niche or taste.
Meanwhile, your legacy company is burdened with an outdated distribution system and is trying desperately to adjust to a new world in which having a local monopoly is not an option.
Sound familiar? Well if you have been working in the adult entertainment industry for the last few years, then this isn’t really news.
In normal times, journalism and the adult entertainment industry would make strange bedfellows. After all, the first is tasked with upholding our democracy and the second is … well, sometimes literally about strange bedfellows.
The two industries share many of the same problems, and a lot of the handwringing can easily be copy and pasted …. Read more at Poynter.org.
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