About people getting their news on the internet...I think some people don't quite understand how it works. From a couple people I've talked to and I recall someone on this site saying "who watches the CBC on TV anymore? I watch it online" in a thread about them shutting down their local news broadcast. Well I thought it would have been obvious, but if they aren't broadcasting on TV they sure as crap aren't putting it on the internet.
Like Cowperson said, most of the news outlets aren't making money online. They are still making their money from TV revenue or print revenue. Lots of online news is recycled from their primary source (either TV or print). I get a lot of my news from CP and Blogs. But each of those sources are linking to TV or print websites. It does seem like TV and print news (at least locally) is in a lot of trouble. Online seems to be the way to go, but the transition to online is going to be ugly at first if all the primary journalists aren't getting paid in that period.
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