Linking to this AP story is exactly the kind of thing the Associated Press says is causing their business to fail.
Newspaper publishers meeting in San Diego got a brutally honest assessment of the struggling newspaper industry from the perspective of Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
Schmidt commended newspapers for staking claim on the Internet in the 1990s but said there wasn’t a second act. He says news Web sites take too long to read, even slower than flipping through a newspaper or magazine, a shortcoming that can be addressed by improving technology.
Grumpy old media journos need to listen up: Relevant content matched with relevant advertising works.
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