Al Lewis, Business Editor of the Houston Chronicle, famed Wall Street Journal columnist, and distinguished and award-winning journalist, discusses reasons for the profitability or failure of newspapers, and the success of U.S. and global energy market.
Al Lewis, Business Editor of the Houston Chronicle, famed Wall Street Journal columnist, and distinguished and award-winning journalist, joins Aaron for a discussion on the state of the Newspaper Industry and Journalism today. Lewis shares his fears and trepidations about the future of his own industry. He talks about the old model in which the Newspaper Industry seems to be stuck in and the many opportunities its leaders missed in moving forward with the Society about which it reports. They also discuss the problems associated with the proliferation of inaccurate and Fake News to which the Internet seemingly has succumbed.