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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by taurath on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:24PM (#19117744)
Your point that ads have always existed is well taken, but if newspapers looked like a local news site today people wouldn't have bought them (its more akin to the free weekly tabloids than a real newspaper). Newspapers used to make money through classifieds in addition to subscriptions. If only there were local-oriented services newspapers could provide - I hope someone figures out a better model soon.
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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by chillacy on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:34PM (#19117856)
Newspapers had a monopoly on distributing written information back in the day: printing presses, typesetters, journalists, delivery staff, etc are all expensive. Now anyone can self-publish on Medium. Technology has changed the game, and we whatever business models work in the future probably won't be the same as those in the past.
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