Monday, January 16, 2017

Ads available for newspapers to defend public notice against attacks from local governments

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie failed in his attempt to remove public notices from newspapers in the state, but the battle over taxpayer-paid advertising for taxpayers' benefit will go on there and in other states, because local governments keep lobbying state legislators to curtail public-notice laws.

The News Media Alliance, formerly the Newspaper Association of America, has developed three advertisements to make the argument for newspapers, which are estimated to get 8 to 10 percent of their annual revenue from government notices designed to inform the public of government actions.

NMA has given all newspapers permission to use the ads, one of which is shown here. Click on it to view a larger version. For the ads, click here and here.

1 comment:

Howard Owenw said...

Why should print papers get a government subsidy not available to non-print rivals? How is public served limiting the distribution of nothices?