To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.
Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.
Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.
It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.
Well, I like shopping.