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Re:The Bad News About the News by cactusface on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:24PM (#9722241)
What do you mean news/classifieds have next to no digital value? They're a delivery vehicle for ads, just like TV. They just can't be sold as their own thing. Then again, Craigslist makes a good chunk of its money by charging for classifieds:

https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/posting_fees

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Re:The Bad News About the News by Zigurd on Monday June 15, 2015 @07:57PM (#9722985)
They're not valuable relative to owning a huge printing plant that sits astride the connection between local merchants and local customers.

The local major network affiliate broadcast TV channels still have something resembling the monopoly newspapers had.

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