Industry veteran Bill Wyman summarizes the challenges of the newspapers in five easy pieces. His two-part essay on Splice Today (one here and two here) distill the business woes as so:
1. Consumers don't pay for news and never have.
2. Newspapers are the product of monopoly thinking.
3. Timidity of newspapers won't work on the Web.
4. Staffs and managers deserve blame.
5. Newspaper Web sites suck.
If that sounds simplistic, it's because it's a very precise version of his extensive argument. He provides perspective at length.
1. Consumers don't pay for news and never have.
2. Newspapers are the product of monopoly thinking.
3. Timidity of newspapers won't work on the Web.
4. Staffs and managers deserve blame.
5. Newspaper Web sites suck.
If that sounds simplistic, it's because it's a very precise version of his extensive argument. He provides perspective at length.
