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Somewhere online (can't remember where) I was reading a response to this...
Young people don't know how to read a newspaper. They don't sit down and read the paper from front to back.
They read bits and pieces here and there, based on what their taste/mood happens to be.
I tend to agree. I pull up my RSS reader daily and pick and choose from all the feeds I've plugged in.
I also believe News Corp will fail at this for one simple reason: their news is cookie-cutter. Nothing local. If they try to charge for their content, it'll just be had for free from any other number of sites which happen to carry the same AP story.
Until these newspapers (and I'm not just referring to News Corp here) get back to original and local reporting, they'll likely continue to lose money.
R.
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