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K “The business plan is simple. 50 percent of the commentators afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. 49 percent question whether afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable is appropriate. 1 percent afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”
J “So are they running a newspaper or running a newspaper into the ground.”
K “They are running. Scared at this time. Perhaps they need 99 percent of the commentators to afflict the afflicted and to comfort the comfortable and fire the 1 percent. Going cautious is the typical reaction.”
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J “Subscriptions for a product and service that is free elsewhere evaporated. Without subscribers, the advertisers left. When the newspaper was no longer the portal to products and the segway to services, it was doomed.”
K “Craigslist, eBay and other digital outlets undermined the newspapers’ financial base.”
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J “The digital world provides one commentator per person. Now we can all find someone to confirm our world view.”
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