Doc Searls likes his news the old fashioned way. He says:
So here’s a challenge to the daily papers: stop giving away the franchise. Make daily editorial available online only for subscribers. Charge for the fresh stuff, online as well as off.
In a perfect old media world, that’s exactly how it would work. But this ain’t a perfect old media world, and if the papers start walling their fresh content off, a hundred online-only publications will happily take their place. Everyone- bloggers, new media, advertisers- would benefit from the trickle down news effect, except the papers.
I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in almost 10 years. By the time I see it in the paper, I already know it. I don’t watch the local news on TV anymore for the same reason.
We live in an accelerated world and news via old media is in slow motion.
