03-18-2021, 10:32 AM
(03-18-2021, 09:58 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(03-17-2021, 06:25 PM)plam Wrote: Sigh, capitalism. There are a couple of small-town US newspapers that have been started outside this whole hedge fund megaconsolidation ownership thing, which I think has been really harmful in many areas including this one.
Yes ... but it's really difficult when so many people are unwilling to pay for a subscription, whether paper or electronic. Advertising can't carry the newspaper business any more.
Difficult yes, but they need to come up with a better business model.
The problem is fundamentally that I have access to a huge number of sources information now. They need a way that I can pay either everything with one subscription, or pay per article.
There were a few glorious years when Netflix and others had almost achieved it for TV and Movies, but now everyone is doing their own streaming service and I'm no longer interested.