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Originally Posted by jayswin
I disagree with this. It seems pretty clear that the majority of people have now adapted to a new society where you simply don't pay for things that people used to pay for, news and journalism being a major part of this shift.
People aren't waving their money looking for some mythical format that is being missed, they're just settling for less quality on free platforms because as a society we don't value what we used to.
People say these "dinosaurs" need to adapt like they're not seeing what's happening. The reality is there's very little actual consumer money to be had these days in news and journalism. There's tons of smart people in these industries, it's not like they're all a bunch of dummies while the smart message board folk have things figured out.
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Sorry to say, but if you do a quick google search on trends in subscriptions to digital news outlets, its obvious that they are growing fairly fast.
So clearly there are people who are willing to pay. Those who aren't weren't really paying for anything anyways. You're not exactly paying for a writer's salary with a $2 paper at the grocery store.