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Tacanderson bookmarked on 2009-07-01 posner ncb newspapers Journalism

To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO).

    • tacanderson
      Tacanderson on 2009-07-01
      To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO).

This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 24 Jun 2009, by T. Rex Bean.

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    tacanderson
    Tac Anderson

    To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO).

    posner ncb newspapers Journalism

      • Tac Anderson

        Tac Anderson on 2009-07-01

        To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO).

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    • To repeat my earlier point, many of the people who have switched under economic pressure to the free medium may find themselves as happy or happier and hence will not switch back when their financial condition improves.
    • Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
      • Michael Becker

        Michael Becker on 2009-06-26

        Jeff Jarvis thinks this reasoning is wrong-headed and outdated because it only seeks to preserve journalism as we know it, not to innovate for the future, for a journalism model that has yet to be imagined.

        To my mind, it also weighs a bit too heavily on the pros-are-better side of the argument, in that Posner doesn't even consider the effect of contributions by skilled and concerned amateurs.

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