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> That's the entire function of a newspaper Exactly. And newspapers aren't doing so well on the internet.
by marshray 10y ago
> That's the entire function of a newspaper
Exactly. And newspapers aren't doing so well on the internet.
- wpietri 10y agoTraditional newspapers aren't. But news as a category is doing extremely well. People read much more of it now than they did 20 years ago, and what they get is much more tuned to their interests. Twitter in many ways replaces the editorial selection function of a newspaper. It doesn't write the articles, but it does let people get a personally tuned stream of news. It also in some ways replaces the opinion page; commentary on current news is a major source of tweets. So yeah, they can't be a newspaper. But they could be part of what comes after it.