https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/farewell-to-the-independent/ from BJ&A Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/farewell-to-the-independent/#comment-127871 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:56:49 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=725#comment-127871 NOTHING that tries to reproduce itself in an on-line version makes much money; even Amazon which was born online makes very little from its retailing businesses. We’re welcoming in these new paradigms which destroy our existing business models all over the place, but a) they don’t make enough money to survive once their share price bubble bursts and b) more importantly, they often don’t adequately replace the thing they outmode, especially in the case of newspapers.
As another old fogey (admittedly) it seems to me that the reading of a newspaper has not been principally about getting “news” for decades. It’s a leisure occupation which informs, fleshes out such information and entertains through a largely serendipitous mix of subjects appealing to a target socio demographic. Given the circumstances of the reader’s attention, all on-line incarnations seem eventually reduced to recycling click bait in order to generate saleable statistics.

]]> https://bja.igloo1.com/blog/farewell-to-the-independent/#comment-127833 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:19:42 +0000 http://www.bjanda.com/blog/?p=725#comment-127833 The problem with moving online is that advertisers love a full page newspaper ad but do not want to buy crappy banners…so how will digital news make money?

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