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The newspapers were already aggregators in the first place. They bought stories off wire feeds, bought editorials, paid for the comics, and sprinkled in their o
by nitwit005 9y ago
The newspapers were already aggregators in the first place. They bought stories off wire feeds, bought editorials, paid for the comics, and sprinkled in their own content.
The Associated Press quite upset the news industry by directly posting content online, because they were afraid people would skip them and get the stories directly.
- chris_wot 9y agoYeah, they paid for it.
- matt4077 9y agoThe newspapers own AP. They share news via AP. AP was/is a scheme to reduce the costs of news gathering by, for example, having the LA Times contribute information on events in LA that the NYTimes can use, and vice versa.
- dredmorbius 9y agoOne argument is that cheaper media technologies require expanding the bounds of the publishing entity. Whether that means ISPs, major aggregators, Amazon / Apple / Google, a public broadcasting model, or something else, I'm not sure. But it's going to be large.