I really wish the comments hear were a little more thought out. There's an emotional reaction lashing out at The Bastards who stole the cheese. The reality is t

I really wish the comments hear were a little more thought out. There's an emotional reaction lashing out at The Bastards who stole the cheese. The reality is that there isn't a villain. There are some fundamental changes in the industry that have affected the amount of money and its flow. It's not malicious. It's incidental. The move online broke newspapers' business models, especially the dominant 'journalism as a delivery mechanism for ads' model. Turns out it was fragile. It also may have changed consumer demand, I think. ADD online readers can be attracted just as easily with reprinted headlines & fluff and their pageviews are worth just as little. The internet also changed supply. A lot of content is being produced for free. They are doing it for fun, they are doing it for "exposure." I have nothing against journalists. I respect the profession. I think it's important. All this adds up to a worse deal for them then before. There is no anti-journalist conspiracy now any more than there was a pro journalist conspiracy before.