Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Consolidating the Freep/detnews

Do people care that the free press and news are trying to consolidate? I think they are only delivering sunday, thursday and friday starting in the spring. I used to get the free press up untill 5-6 years ago, some days no sections would be read at all. How much is it, around $100 for a year? Some people say they newspaper can't be replaced by the internet newspaper, some say otherwise. I think what should happen is regulate the internet www.detnews.com or www.freep.com and charge a similar, perhaps higher fee for obtaining news articles online, and at the same time offer a "preview" of the days top articles, only allowing non-users to read through half or even less of the article. I think it could work, and should work knowing the every changing technology wiping out digital immigrants. At the same time, many jobs in transportation and production of the newspaper itself will be lost, or decreased a lot. Just not a good time to be in Detroit....

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