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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Just in the UK, Ben? I'd point out that BBC has extensive worldwide coverage, too...
(And of course the newspapers /are/ attacking the BBC licence fee, but fortunately that one falls flat, heh)
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That's true, but the BBC is still UK centric - it's not really a viable replacement for, say, the Washington Post, for the locals. My point was that the position of UK papers is even worse than that of newspapers where there is no state-funded on-line news source.
The Times, in particular, seems to me to be a strange thing to want to charge for. I'd say that the leading "serious" papers are now the Torygraph and the Grauniad, so that if anyone could make a paywall work, they could. (Not that I think that either could, to be honest, although I'd miss the Grauniad on-line).