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Newspaper industry consultant John Morton, who heads Morton Research Inc., said he thinks many newspapers want to wean readers off free online content and transform their Web sites into paid-only publications.
Free editions of newspapers on the Web are "quickly falling out of favor," he said. "I think you will see newspapers selling electronic subscriptions or print subscriptions, or a combination of both, which is what the Wall Street Journal does, and has been very successful at."
I, for one, am not interested in buying a subscription to every paper in the country so that I can (for instance) go to the Columbia State when there's a massive train wreck in S.C. (like yesterday).
The alternatives are generally the sites of local TV and radio stations -- but even there, a few will get you (WWL-TV in New Orleans: booooooo!)
The question is this: Is the Web a means for people to get the information they need from wherever it's happening, or is it just another medium the corporate media can use to shake us down for $$$$$?
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