[MGP-Forum Announce] Fwd: Is it better to build, not buy, metro news organiza...

[Markkarlin at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/27/2006 8:29:52 AM Central Standard Time,  
densmore at densmoreassociates.com writes:

Doing  some catching up, we just came across MGP2006 alum Barry Parr's Oct. 
12, 2006,  blog posting about the future of the Los Angeles times. Parr, the 
Jupiter  Research analyst who also is a pioneer local online news community 
operator  with Coastsider.com, suggests it is now better to build, not buy, a  
metropolitan news organization. Is he  right?

See:
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/parr/archives/2006/10/dismantling_
the.html


it could sound apocolalyptic and alarmist to argue that the daily newspaper  
industry as we know it is a dinosaur, but the economics and compartively  
primitive technology of the newspaper business do not bode well for the daily  
print media.
 
indeed, it would probably be a lot less expensive to build a multi-platform  
news delivery metro vehicle from scratch -- and end up with a product for the  
future, not the past.
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