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Exactly. The real cost of running a good paper is renting the office space and paying the meat-sacks (read: actual human beings) to go out there on a beat and
by sydbarrett74 4y ago
Exactly. The real cost of running a good paper is renting the office space and paying the meat-sacks (read: actual human beings) to go out there on a beat and gather the news. Printing the physical artefact was probably always low on the COGS.
- bombcar 4y agoThe physical paper had advantages though - if you were interested in one or two things (say sports and comics) you'd still see the headlines and other content, which meant that the advertisers were willing to spend. The internet really lets you 'focus' on a particular article/video and ignore basically everything else.