What exactly does a community need that a website or Twitter cannot provide? I think the people at Baristanet.com will disagree with you.
Carl Natale
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Mar 27, 2009 14:54:13 PM
Sounds like
Nicholas is saying that the problem with newsPAPERs is that most of them might reasonably wish to remain on PAPER.
The "problem" for them is that other forms of advertising (and perhaps a recessionary decline in advertising altogether) are eating away their profitability potential.
The problem for US is that newspapers serve a community in ways that websites and twitter cannot. Another problem is that editorials are forums for whole thoughts to be thrust upon a community all at once.
Depending on people to visit a jillion websites is fragmented and not at all the same.
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Carl Natale of ME @ Mar 27, 2009 14:54:13 PM
Muser of NM @ Mar 27, 2009 11:55:27 AM
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