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By: mike_b1

mike_b1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:08:43 +0000

And now back to the real world …

By: bruce

bruce — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:37:17 +0000

maybe if the news papers fired all the commie traitors and started printing the truth people might even read them.the nyt had a reporter named walter duranty, who was a soviet agent,who gave glowing reports of collectivization but failed to mention the millions of starving ukrainians.the news papers,like the msm are little more than propaganda organs for white house traitors.

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By: mike_b1

mike_b1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:41:18 +0000

Tony, there were a couple folks who made the case for pay in that issue. One said — I don’t recall if it was Simon — that Pinch and Weymouth shouldn’t sit down together (anti-trust) but rather should just go to their respective organizations and point to the article. That was his novel twist on a well-written but standard argument for the pay wall.

By: Tony Schinella

Tony Schinella — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:20:39 +0000

Interestingly, David Simon, in the July/August edition of CJR, suggested something very similar ["Build the Wall"], noting that if Sulzberger at the Times and Weymouth at the Post would just sit down and cut a deal to start charging for online content, everyone else will follow suit and journalism will be saved. I don’t recall him saying anything about anti-trust in the article but it is clear that Rutten heavily borrowed [i.e. stole?] the concept from Simon.

By: scott rosenberg

scott rosenberg — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:15:13 +0000

The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 was so effective at saving afternoon newspapers, let’s have the government step in again!

By: Tom Grubisich

Tom Grubisich — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:42:33 +0000

WBUR.org would be an even better site if it focused exclusively on Boston, Massachusetts and New England. WBUR listeners, I’m sure, use other sites carrying even more high-quality national and international news.

By: LFNeilson

LFNeilson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:09:56 +0000

I don’t see why the originator of a story can’t charge for it, if it’s an exclusive. Who’s going to write the news if it’s to be immediately lifted, especially for someone else’s profit.

[a] How many reporters are actually writing? [b] And how many web sites are copying their stuff? I’d bet that [a] is shrinking and [b] is growing.