This article in conjunction with “What’s really wrong with newspapers” hone-in to what it believes to be the bigger problem with declining newspaper interest. That as small community driven papers become conglomerates, it loses the community driven stories to impersonal wire stories. Both article papers argue that news is not the blame for the failure of newspapers but rather, old business models.
This essay delves into the drear economic position of newspapers in this country and the only thing that may save it will be the unthinkable and revolutionary. It’s subtitle, “Why iTunes is not a workable model for the newspaper business” is an example of how news isn’t a niche like iTunes or Consumer Reports, and the business models working for them aren’t what’s going to work for newspaper.
My favorite quote in the article is as follows: “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?…Nothing. Nothing will work, but everything might.” This issue is not a closed book, the solution is out there and it will merge.
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