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Turning to Digital to Save Newspapers
3/22/2012

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cat tail
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Re: Filter Bubbles
cat tail   3/27/2012 11:05:26 AM
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At least back then, most major cities had at least two major dailies. Now we're lucky if there is one. If one paper made a stupid decision, there was hope the other would have some sense. That was the value of competiton.

Scott Raynovich
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Re: Filter Bubbles
Scott Raynovich   3/27/2012 11:47:39 AM
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@noreeen

LOL! yes you got me there. I have vivid memories of the news, I guess maybe I wasn't thinking of exactly when it was and how young I was. I remember writing something in school about it. I guess you (and I) might have been a little young for the union card ... my bad.

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Re: Filter Bubbles
Scott Raynovich   3/27/2012 11:49:55 AM
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BTW, anybody remember China Syndrome with Jack Lemon and Jane Fonda. Great movie based on the TMI scare.

mInvestor
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Re: Filter Bubbles
mInvestor   3/27/2012 7:31:19 PM
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@Noreen,

That's funny.

chapAnjou
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Bad business decision
chapAnjou   3/29/2012 9:10:26 AM
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"The most recent attempt to stanch the industrywide bleeding is the general implementation of paywalls, which place a limit on the number of articles visitors can read online before they're forced to subscribe."

Paywalls (for the most part) are such a bad business decision.  As mentioned in the article, users have so many other options to get their news/info/whatever that you're basically begging them to leave your site and go elsewhere.  There's no such thing as consumer loyalty anymore, not with the internet providing so many options.

chapAnjou
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Re: Filter Bubbles
chapAnjou   3/29/2012 9:13:48 AM
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@Noreen,

hahahaha, that's ridiculous. 

What a different world we live in nowadays where reporters are rushing out to do stories on ludicrous topics like cats that have a paw that looks like the virgin mary.

chapAnjou
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chapAnjou   3/29/2012 9:16:06 AM
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@cat tail,

I think the internet provides this competition without the need to go search out the physical copies of local dailies.  Anything you can find in paper form is on the internet and more accessible than the physical copy.

Now, if one daily misses a scoop, you have 10 others waiting to pounce...pun completely intended :)

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