U.S. newspaper shuns Web, and thrives
"'Why would I put anything on the Web?' asked Dan Jacobson, the publisher and owner of the newspaper. 'I don't understand how putting content on the Web would do anything but help destroy our paper. Why should we give our readers any incentive whatsoever to not look at our content along with our advertisements, a large number of which are beautiful and cheap full-page ads?'"
The "progressives" who run our nation's newspapers thought that joint operating agreements (like the destructive "merging of The Detroit News & FreePress) would allow each newspaper to have a monopoly.
And they were right!
Except monopolies rarely produce high quality...... and progressives were never interested in quality to begin with. So......
The customers took the free stuff (who needs quality when it's free!) and dropped the rest.
It is amazing that newspaper owners are at a total loss as to why their companies are collapsing.
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