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Future of Internet News?

Posted by Cliff on from the not-your-father's-style-of-journalism dept.

Matthew asks: "Now that the Internet has become an integral part of many people's lives, it has also become the place where many of us get our daily news reports (think Slashdot, New York Times, etc). The decentralization of the Internet offers many advantages over traditional media such as newspapers and television, as the user has more control over what to view and when to view it. But how does the future of this utopia look? With the uprise of ad blockers, are we going to be able to get our news for free? Will the Internet become a place for the "selected few" with money to spend? How do DRM and Trusted Computing play into the role? What does Darwin say will happen to newspapers, radio, television?"

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  1. Newspapers - a dying breed by kaustik · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't remember the last time I picked up a hardcopy of a newspaper... or just about any other publication, aside from a paerback novel.
    Why read day-old news when you can get up to the minute headlines via http and RSS? If I am not at a PC, I can read them with my blackberry or my cell phone. I even saw a laundrymat with a news ticker in the windows the other day...

  2. Re:Bloggers by stevey · · Score: 0, Redundant
    BBC doesn't have to worry about pleasing the advertisers, since there are none. Taxpayer funding luckily doesn't mean government control either, at least not in this case.

    True, but I still think that the BBCs license fee is a broken way of doing it.

    I have a big TV which I use for watching movies, and Sky. Not terrestrial channels at all.

    Yet every year I have to pay over a hundred quid straight into the hands of the BBC, why?

    Sure they've produced amazing programs which I remember from years ago, such as "Tomorrow's World", and the more recent series such as "The Blue Planet", etc.

    I don't listen to their radio stations, I don't watch their channel any more and still I have to pay them every year. Because it's required by the government.

    I'd happily buy a "crippled" TV which was incapable of watching BBC1/2/24 if it meant I didn't have to pay the license fee and I'm sure I'm not alone.