Nov
17
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A shot of JD
Jonathan Deamer's tumblelog: for when proper writing is just too much effort. if you want, follow me on Twitter or take a random shot.
Posts tagged journalism
Sep
21
Local news
[…] I would love to support my local newspaper—particularly if it helped me actually pay attention to local news. But I can’t justify wasting a mound of paper when I’m only likely to read a few articles a month. Getting my news from the Internet is more convenient, more expedient, and less wasteful. With the an online edition readily available, the print edition actually has negative utility. […]
Do click through to read the full post. I agree completely (even/especially with the point that catering to edge cases like us isn’t really a business model).
Only a small proportion of local news content is of interest to me (don’t care about football, don’t have children in schools, spend most of my time in the city centre etc.), but on those occassions there is something I like, I’m happy to pay something (somehow) to make sure that those infrequent-but-important articles continue to be written.
