wev567
join:2006-02-25
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to iansltx
Re: Didn't you have to pay for a newspaper subscription? Working for a college paper, you should have an idea of how much effort goes into real reporting. It's aint easy or cheap, and online ad revenues will never be enough to cover. An ISP "tax" for print newspapers isn't fair, and wouldn't be enough to keep the papers around anyway. We have to admit that in-depth, comprehensive reporting will soon be extinct. |
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| I wouldn't say reporting and journalism is extinct, just that it'll have to be a premium product, and a specialized one, in order to survive. Eventually the industry will stabilize, with lower pay to be sure, but some firms will be weeded out, leaving entities that provide value proportional to their cost, either in advertising money or real money. People will still pay for news, but the quality has to be high. Also, high quality content attracts high quality visitors which react to high quality, high priced ads... |
