RadarOnline is Ramping Up Against Michael Jackson

Two bits of news regarding Dylan Howard who has taken over National Enquirer AND Radar Online. "The strategy behind this move, is, let's face it, content has changed," Howard told Media Ink. "It's time to re-engineer the way we look at the business," he said. "I want more vibrancy and more collaboration" between Radar and the Enquirer. "The industrywide downturn in newsstand sales is more worrisome at AMI than in other companies because the Enquirer is responsible for generating over $100 million in retail sales and AMI relies on circulation for the majority of its revenue." Meanwhile, CNN is laying off loads of people, though Duke claims he didn't get cut and they tout him in an article about his departure - "More specifically, for the first nine months of 2014, Duke's byline attracted a staggering 300 million desktop page views." One must wonder... So what would make such a heavily read "journalist" — and I use the term loosely — go from CNN to a tabloid? Dylan Howard hired Alan Duke because Duke had a really good following over on CNN.. and he hoped to infuse his crippled tabloids with his readership.. but what did Duke see in this move? Only thing Dylan Howard didn't take into consideration that a huge part of Duke's following were Michael Jackson fans... and with his new tabloidilized style of writing that number will wane considerably. So this is "energetic and vibrant" Dylan Howard's last hurrah.. "He said he prepared himself for the Enquirer editorship by reading books like The Godfather of the Tabloid and buying up hundreds of old back issues on eBay. 'The most important thing to me was to become a student of the Enquirer,' he said." Furthermore, Dylan Howard is ready to pay for stories.. "When I told Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll about Howard's plans to shore up the Enquirer's investigative chops, he said he'd hold the publication to the same standards as every other news outlet: 'You can't pay for information and you should try to be as transparent and accountable as possible about your investigations.'" "The Enquirer would beg to differ on that first point. 'Anyone who has information and wants to get paid, call me,' said Howard. 'My checkbook is open.'" Sound familiar? Something to consider is why does anyone NEED tabloids anymore? Most celebrities have twitters and/or facebooks.. and they don't mind tweeting their fights, displays of domestic violence, behavior that borders on mental illness and marital issues for all to read.. The only time we ever see anyone reading a daily tabloid hard copy is when they are stuck in the line at the cash register for any length of time. Most people are scrolling on their cell phones. Online the readership is so low that everyone must click on a link and be FORCE FED a video from an advertizer... the advertizer undoubtably is keeping a tally... but just the fact that this is occurring points to a serious lack of circulation and readership. We say don't read it, don't feed it... Don't click the urls and they will lose advertizers. Supply and demand... it's still the way of the world. http://www.dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson-v-estate/285-biased-media-reporting-in-robson-v-mj-estate-case