Fuck Newspapers

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    "What I found interesting was their economics - in those pre-huge-internet days the newspaper itself (with a solid array of journalists, not merely some local newsdesk regurgiator) was paid for by the cost of the advertising it contained."

    And for a lot of smaller local newspapers the local economy was actually a big source of funding. In the pre-internet age they basically had a monopoly on classified ads - if you wanted to sell some furniture, you'd take out an ad in the local paper. Which is why services like Craigslist and Ebay probably did as much to kill off local papers as free online news did.

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