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BusinessWeek published a brief article by Jon Fine about what the landscape might be like when big-city newspapers bite the dust:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_40/b4102077743556.htm
I enjoyed these quotes:
"Local is a very unorganized and dirty business... People look at local as this one-ton gorilla, but in fact it's 2,000 one-pound monkeys."
"No publisher can afford to sit down with a city's 2,000 small fry to sell each a $50 ad."
"The obvious venues for all this displaced journalistic energy are a gazillion new independent online endeavors, be they individual blogs or bigger efforts..."
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_40/b4102077743556.htm
I enjoyed these quotes:
"Local is a very unorganized and dirty business... People look at local as this one-ton gorilla, but in fact it's 2,000 one-pound monkeys."
"No publisher can afford to sit down with a city's 2,000 small fry to sell each a $50 ad."
"The obvious venues for all this displaced journalistic energy are a gazillion new independent online endeavors, be they individual blogs or bigger efforts..."
