“ Simon, along with everyone else who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper industry, is effectively arguing that the world will change to support newspapers. The truth is that newspapers must change to adapt to the world.”
— Pay Walls - Daring Fireball (via David Chartier ).
I also recommend reading the whole David Simon article, but I’d suggest a strategy to save journalism that assumes away most media companies as players in the market for news and ignores the importance of upstart entrants while relying on tacit collusion to make it work isn’t anything but wishful fantasy.
