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You’re selling the wrong thing

Started by Jake McKee · 10 months ago

Hugh McGuire’s latest article on HuffingtonPost, Porn Knows What It’s For — Do You? points out that traditional businesses like newspapers and music are looking at their function in the world wrong. This is a great read.
It seems to me the porn business, ... Continue reading »

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  • Inclusion and exclusion are core editorial techniques, but I'm not sure they're the entire value of a newspaper. In as much as inclusion or exclusion of a story serve objectivity in a newspaper's reporting, I think there's increasing value there because overall objectivity as a goal is becoming harder to find across all media. I think another critical purpose of newspapers is to own the concept of local - to be an indispensable resource for the community. Newspapers can provide a common ground among neighbors in a fragmented world, and I think in this age of fragmentation and echo chambers, some will crave that. Of course, whether the newspaper is physical or virtual -- I think that's a technological and lifestyle issue beyond content.

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