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Old 03-28-2010, 12:16 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
In short, newspapers simply cannot survive off of online ad revenues alone. This is why the industry is hemorrhaging -- and I suspect will turn more and more towards paywalls in order to survive.
Then they're in trouble. It's been shown over and over on the web that you only get a very small minority of your users to subscribe when you're using a paywall, and citizen journalism can provide the vast majority of the news.

The only way "around" that is to attack citizen journalism.
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