Columnist's Solution To Newspaper Woes: Take Down Newspaper Webs...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 21:33

It's almost cute when long-time newspaper columnists with almost no grounding in basic economics try to come up with plans to "save" the newspaper industry.

It almost always ends up demanding some form of collusion, government bailout or a complete suppression of basic economics.

Sometimes all three. We've seen ideas where newspapers would team up to collude on ad prices .

We've seen (many, many times) the idea that newspapers should collude to charge for all content...

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