The real beef is the "are newspapers dead" question being posed here at SMT by Paul Gillen, inter alia. DARPA was founded in 1958, and their work on packet data transfer that gave birth to the internet was operational by the time Richard Nixon signed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. The resulting "joint operating agreements" between newspapers sharing the same "market" in the US effectively exempted newspapers from antitrust laws, and helped some of them survive in an environment of declining circulation. Today's market is global, and the buiness environment for dead tree publishers is shake, rattle 'n roll. QuadrantOne an others of its ilk (there have been failures in the past) is part of a MSM culture that believes it it is "entitled" to be exempt from US antitrust laws. Don't know what is oligopoly comptition is... Google it.
QuadrantOne... can dead tree oligopoly jack internet "democracy"?
The real beef is the "are newspapers dead" question being posed here at SMT by Paul Gillen, inter alia. DARPA was founded in 1958, and their work on packet data transfer that gave birth to the internet was operational by the time Richard Nixon signed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. The resulting "joint operating agreements" between newspapers sharing the same "market" in the US effectively exempted newspapers from antitrust laws, and helped some of them survive in an environment of declining circulation. Today's market is global, and the buiness environment for dead tree publishers is shake, rattle 'n roll. QuadrantOne an others of its ilk (there have been failures in the past) is part of a MSM culture that believes it it is "entitled" to be exempt from US antitrust laws. Don't know what is oligopoly comptition is... Google it.