Nickel-and-dimed to death « BuzzMachine - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Mar 09
  

  Marcel Weiss

  journalism paidcontent

  • [Y]ou find many ways to say that papers should charge and that readers should pay, without saying why, without addressing the value to the public and the competitive economic environment for the publisher, and without getting specific about the complete financial projections of your model.

  • Now is the time to be bluntly honest: What is the real value of newspapers as they are made today? What are they worth?

     

    That is asking the question from the customer’s point of view, and that is where this discussion must start.

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