in charging $160/year for their online content. Warren Kinsella has the reasons.
6. Newspapers have to realize – but never will – that their news content is the best advertising for them. That’s what good, solid journalism is: good. It makes a case for itself. When MSM mavens hide content, people will mosey off elsewhere for news content that isn’t hidden. News is like water: it flows. It seeps out.
7. Google is the boss, not the news providers. If Google won’t agree to facilitate charging for news, that’s the end of the discussion. And Google won’t ever, ever charge: it’s contrary to its entire business model.
It’s an odd decision to make, instead of stepping on the neck of Canwest when they are down, they are tossing their entire network a lifeline. If that is where the free content is, that is where we will go. The Globe and Mail risks changing from Canada’s newspaper of record to being the newspaper that no one cares about.
