{"id":8658,"date":"2009-04-04T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2009-04-04T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T03:29:47","slug":"jta-struggles-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8658","title":{"rendered":"JTA Struggles To Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.tjctv.com\/2009\/04\/jtas-president-insults-bloggers-twitterers-others-whom-jtas-asking-to-make-them-relevant\/\">Steven Ira Weiss blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In a new twist on what&rsquo;s become the near-constant pleading for donations from  JTA, <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/?p=8648\">President Elisa Spungen Bildner  insults producers of new media explicitly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Without a strong JTA, the storytelling will be left to bloggers,  twitterers, and non-professionals. Is this the best way for our future Jewish  stories to be told and recorded? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And insulting new media producers is actually only part of it: just where  does Spungen Bildner think that the many local Jewish newspapers fit into this  equation? They&rsquo;re rarely bloggers or twitterers, so I guess the <em>New York  Jewish Week<\/em>, <em>LA Jewish Journal<\/em>, and <em>New Jersey Jewish News<\/em> are  &ldquo;non-professionals&rdquo;? I&rsquo;ve leveled many a criticism at various print Jewish media  purveyors, but calling them &ldquo;non-professionals&rdquo; is something we had to wait for  Spungen Bildner to do &mdash; someone whose JTA organization, by the way, gains a  significant chunk of its revenues by charging all of those papers thousands of  dollars per year to reprint JTA content. Oh, and of course I failed to include  in that list the <em>Forward<\/em>, whose previous executive editor, Ami Eden, is  now JTA&rsquo;s editor-in-chief, and the <em>Philadelphia Jewish Exponent<\/em> &mdash; whose  Editor Lisa Hostein was editor-in-chief of JTA until a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>And the insult to new media producers is particularly galling at a time when  JTA is <em>pleading<\/em> with bloggers and twitterers to make JTA relevant again  with a notice in the most prominent location of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/\">front page<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While Spungen Bildner&rsquo;s disdain for new media producers can perhaps be  attributed to the fact that these efforts by JTA to recruit new media producers  into making them relevant have thus far failed (as of this writing, the most  recent posts to <a href=\"http:\/\/kavod.jta.org\/\">Kavod<\/a> are 11 days old, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/jblogs\/latest\">JBlogs<\/a> seems to produce no  noticeable traffic), it&rsquo;s nonetheless truly galling to see JTA speaking out of  both sides of its mouth in this manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Ira Weiss blogs: In a new twist on what&rsquo;s become the near-constant pleading for donations from JTA, President Elisa Spungen Bildner insults producers of new media explicitly: Without a strong JTA, the storytelling will be left to bloggers, twitterers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,167,20,7005,151],"tags":[17021,29787,11810,10904,17051,17050],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-jewish-journalism","category-journalism","category-jta","category-steven-i-weiss","tag-bildner","tag-jewish-journal","tag-jewish-media","tag-jewish-newspapers","tag-media-producers","tag-philadelphia-jewish-exponent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}