I think you and the author are half right.
First of all, the entire economics of newspapers - and traditional
media - was based on captive audiences and irrational advertising
expenditures. With their monopoly gone and advertisers having both
choice AND information about what works, that model isn't sustainable.
Newspapers have to aggressively experiment to oncrease their value to
society or disappear. The model you propose is one valid option, but
there are many others.
One I'd love to see is somebody in the news biz get off the high horse
and recognize that the Internet unleashed a flood of citizen
journalists, who at their best do just as much investigation as the
bulk of existing journalists. If the newspaper journalists are really
smarter and more objective than us plebes, why haven't they provided
the sirtbof cogent, in depth analyses that would sway the blogosphere
which "leeches off them"?
Or is the real problem that their current model was such a slave to
their economics that they've forgotten what real journalism could and
should be?
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On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:55, [email protected] wrote:
The old-media dinosaurs remain the basis for the entire media food
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