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Walter Isaacson Thinks web newspapers need micro-payments

submitted by Brian Houston

(dag)
1 decade 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago

Walter Isaacson thinks newspapers made a mistake by putting everything on the Internet for free.

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dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

I couldn't disagree with this guy more. The Wall Street Journal has already tried this, and it didn't work. The genie is out of the bottle, start charging $5 a month to view the New York Times online and readership will be a 10th of what it is now.

Micro-payments aren't going to work, advertising has tanked and will not support a newspaper staff - so what's the answer?

No f'ing clue - I wish I knew - I would apply that answer to VideoSift. All I know is that traditional media will continue to be disrupted by the web, papers will keep going out of business - until some new model is found. I'm sure it's out there in the future waiting somewhere.

dag

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Oh and *blocked, sorry rest of the world.

This video has been flagged as having an embed that is Region Blocked to not function in certain geographical locations - declared blocked by dag.

Moving this video to dag's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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