Fatal assumptions
I may be the last to comment on the American Press Institute’s report, “Newspaper Economic Action Plan,” which was produced in May and distributed in June at the not-so-secret NAA meeting in Chicago. But I was flipping through it this morning and was struck how thoroughly the report exposes its own fatal flaws, in a section titled “Assumptions:” Consumers perceive that content produced by news organizations is valuable to them. Consumers will actually make content purchases when they are