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Originally Posted by Russ
Playing devil's advocate (plus acknowledging I don't know how these things work), what's wrong with the money they get from selling physical copies as well as the income from online advertisers?
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Online advertising makes no money really. The only way it works at a large scale which requires pages that are very cheap to produce and are hit often. It's expensive to produce a page on a news site which is why we're increasingly seeing link-bait blogs or picture gallerys. How many times have you seen "The Ten Best [whatever]" on a news site? They are knocked up quickly and are designed to get hits.
When a 30 minute to create page about the 10 funniest cats written by an unpaid intern generates more income for a news site than an in-depth article about the Cypriot crisis written by a professional financial journalist we have a big problem.