Currybetdotnet: 6 other things newspapers could stop doing for a day to prove their “unique” value
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 19:32 via Delicious/martinstabe
Martin Belam picks apart Cale Cowan's suggestion that "All newspapers in the world need to shut down their websites, if just for a day, to demonstrate that it is the fourth estate that actually provides 90% of the news on the Internet" by showing how many of newspapers' other social functions and sources of value are being eaten away by superior services online... Read More...
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1. Rex Hammock | 14 January 2009 at 2014
As my mother used to say, 'Be careful what you wish – it may come true.' As Belam points out, if those websites went dark, it may actually prove how redundant that 90% of the news on the internet is.
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