Fuck Newspapers

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  • d_rek0

    Sure, you can get your 'locally' aggregated content from the unregulated blogosphere and myriad aggregate news source. But the problem is they all lack any sort of credible journalistic reputation.

    It's inevitable that newspapers will eventually move the bulk (if not all) of their content to be served up online to consumers. The problem is that they are owned by baby-booming dinosaurs who haven't figured out how to properly monetize the experience and perhaps more importantly, haven't figured out how to make it easier for millennials to subscribe to and consume that content.

    People can and do pay for content. You just have to make it easy for them to do so. (Apple Store, Netflix, anyone?).

    Until newspapers figure out a more robust and user-friendly way for users to subscribe to content online then they will continue to struggle. But they're not going anywhere. And they're not unimportant.

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