Legal Ads Help Keep the Political Machines in Power
The Obama administration is trying to find ways to keep newspapers publishing. They are talking about turning them into non profits. Does Obama's "Bailout" mean a future for print but not profits? Any government bailout in newspaper finance must be done without any ability of the government to choose which paper gets bailed out and which does not. In many cities where the political machines control who gets elected to judgeship, the bosses of those machines direct legal ads to newspapers that provide the most positive coverage of the elected officials they back. Many states have done away with legal ads in newspapers for a cheaper and more effective way to get the information to the public, the internet. States Begin To Permit Web Posting For Legal Ads, Public Notices The legal ads system continues in New York and other cities because the political leaders have an arrangement with the local media to push them or the candidates they support. Local papers are filled with stories that praise elected officials and attack challengers to them. Many journalist in local papers say privately the ads effect what they are able to report. The Law Journal a very powerful paper in the legal field and courts in New York cannot exist without legal ads. Time seems to be running out on the Journal and other papers who depend on legal ads.
The Obama administration is trying to find ways to keep newspapers publishing. They are talking about turning them into non profits. Does Obama's "Bailout" mean a future for print but not profits? Any government bailout in newspaper finance must be done without any ability of the government to choose which paper gets bailed out and which does not. In many cities where the political machines control who gets elected to judgeship, the bosses of those machines direct legal ads to newspapers that provide the most positive coverage of the elected officials they back. Many states have done away with legal ads in newspapers for a cheaper and more effective way to get the information to the public, the internet. States Begin To Permit Web Posting For Legal Ads, Public Notices The legal ads system continues in New York and other cities because the political leaders have an arrangement with the local media to push them or the candidates they support. Local papers are filled with stories that praise elected officials and attack challengers to them. Many journalist in local papers say privately the ads effect what they are able to report. The Law Journal a very powerful paper in the legal field and courts in New York cannot exist without legal ads. Time seems to be running out on the Journal and other papers who depend on legal ads.
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One more kick in the kidneys for papers: The end of legal ads
"One form of revenue – and, truth be told, government subsidy – for newspapers that hasn’t gone away – yet – is legal ads. Laws require notices to be given to the population as a whole and newspapers were judged to be the best vehicle for them. No more. A court in Maine just ruled that notice in a paper is no longer sufficient because papers are now, well, too puny.
In a unanimous decision published Tuesday on the court’s Web site, Associate Justice William Clifford wrote that the practice of putting lawsuit notification in a newspaper began “when newspapers were the only means of print mass communication, and when newspapers were more widely and intensely read than is now the case … Because service by publication has become less likely to achieve actual notice of a lawsuit, it is also less likely to meet the requirements of due process.” BuzzMachine
"One form of revenue – and, truth be told, government subsidy – for newspapers that hasn’t gone away – yet – is legal ads. Laws require notices to be given to the population as a whole and newspapers were judged to be the best vehicle for them. No more. A court in Maine just ruled that notice in a paper is no longer sufficient because papers are now, well, too puny.
In a unanimous decision published Tuesday on the court’s Web site, Associate Justice William Clifford wrote that the practice of putting lawsuit notification in a newspaper began “when newspapers were the only means of print mass communication, and when newspapers were more widely and intensely read than is now the case … Because service by publication has become less likely to achieve actual notice of a lawsuit, it is also less likely to meet the requirements of due process.” BuzzMachine
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