Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
If they can't charge for their content, what would you like them to do? The money to pay the salaries has to come from somewhere. All the blame about the death of print journalism lies squarely with those who go to freep.com instead of paying for a subscription and to those who were incredibly short sited when they conditioned the marketplace to EXPECT the product to be free.

Newspapers kind of missed their boat. Instead of spending the time and money to develop something like the Amazon Kindle; Gannett was busy expanding the plant in Sterling Heights. In the early to mid 2000's the newspaper industry was presented with a choice and instead of embracing technology they doubled down on something that was clearly failing.