The crisis at the newspaper suggests the publisher has no idea about how the media operates.
Will Lewis, then the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, leads an agriculture roundtable discussion in Washington on April 30, 2019. | Lance Cheung/USDA’s senior media writer. He has written commentary about the media industry and politics for decades and was previously a columnist forThe oldest axiom in journalism is that the reporter should never become the story.
But Lewis’ most recent alleged attempts at message control appear to have backfired on him. Some may argue a culture clash between Lewis’ hard-edged Fleet Street nature and the American media ecosystem is to blame, but more likely it’s a flaw in Lewis’ character or a basic misunderstanding about how reporters do their job. Regardless, doom could be in his future.sources, “Mr. Lewis told Ms. Buzbee the case involving him did not merit coverage.
Attacking a reporter who has the goods also has a way of attracting additional reporters to the story, something Lewis must know. Having unfairly savaged Folkenflik, what will Lewis do next? Disparagereporter Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi, who distinguished themselves with the Thursday story, as “activists, not journalists” because they wrote unflatteringly about him?“British newsroom leaders just do not tolerate the level of dissent that American ones do.
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