At 08:04 PM 8/7/01 +0100 Robert Shaw wrote:
>The UK has a free market in newspapers, but no monopoly, in
>contradiction to what your explanation would seem to predict.
>The situation is more complex than that.
>
>The UK newpaper market is segmented by lifestyle not
>geography, but even within each segment there are multiple
>papers in direct competition with each other.
Out of curiosity, are these *daily* newspapers?
I'm asking because I think that there may be a cultural difference in
terms. For example, _The Economist_ (a notable British publication)
refers to itself as a "newspaper", whereas in the States we would call it
most definitely a magazine. The United States has a lot of competition in
the magazine business, segmented by lifestyle.
Nick, however, was lamenting the lack of competition among daily newspapers
covering local news.
JDG
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