Otis Chandler

摘要

Owning a newspaper is different from owning other sorts of business. The returns are often psychic. The owners of banks, department stores or sausage factories want profits above all and tend to be ruthless about tearing apart, or even selling, their businesses when the dividends dry up. But newspaper proprietors have interests beyond the accounts. In a small country like England, which has a national press, they tend to seek political influence, and ideally a peerage too. In America, where papers have traditionally served little more than a single city, the dividend comes from stirring civic pride, satisfying the mission to inform and helping to build the finest community you ever did see.