I don't know if that's true but at least that's a serious point worthy of discussion (unlike the speaker here). That said I don't think the ad-model is on the

I don't know if that's true but at least that's a serious point worthy of discussion (unlike the speaker here). That said I don't think the ad-model is on the wane. I just think it looks that way because of a paradigm shift from what used to be a local world. In other words everyone used to need a local paper and all those papers carried the same AP stories. Now you have a world where all those papers compete against each other and obviously a lot of them are going to go out of business. But that's not a problem with the Ad model it's just the economy of news shifting due to technological change. The money's still out there it's just consolidated. My personal opinion, and it's just an opinion, but from what I've seen content that can't support an ad model usually isn't content people are willing to pay for.