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Nicholas Carr: The writing is on the paywall

Monday, 9 March 2009, 18:19

Missed this, from February 10: "The essential problem with the newspaper business today is that it is suffering from a huge imbalance between supply and demand. What the Internet has done is broken the geographical constraints on news distribution and flooded the market with stories, with product. Supply so far exceeds demand that the price of the news has dropped to zero. … [The] solution to [newspapers'] dilemma actually lies on the production side: particularly, the radical consolidation and radical reduction of capacity. The number of U.S. newspapers is going to collapse."

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 Thursday, 5 June 2008, 13:54 1

Adrian Monck wonders whether the emphasis on "hyperlocal" news is misplaced. Sociology 101 backs this up: not every geographically-bounded administrative unit is actually a "community".

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