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Over the last several weeks the rhetoric about whether newspapers can charge for content online has heated up again. The publisher of The New York Times (NYT), which had charged for some of its stories and then stopped, said that he would be climbing back on the bandwagon. This helped trigger more public sparring over how valuable content is when it comes from the pens of real reporters and not off the pages of news aggregators like Google News and The Huffington Post who, according to their sworn enemies in traditional media, live off the effort, expense, and ingenuity...
Unfortunately, most newspaper readers will never pay for content online, and the Detroit Pulitzer reveals some of the problems of old world print publications. The Kilpatrick story was about scandal, betrayal, and the abuse of power. In those departments, it was a match for some of Shakespeare's best work. But the series of articles probably did not get the Free Press more than a few new subscribers, and no one would have paid for it online. Just after the story broke, the most important and interesting parts of the information were on the local Detroit TV and radio stations...
Newspapers are dying and other media may follow because even the very best information is easily transportable to other media and it is done so legitimately and by other content providers who have the best of intentions. They do not want to hurt their peers, but they cannot be without content covering the hottest topics of the day. What a reader cannot find one place, he will find somewhere else. The exceptions to these rules have fallen mostly into the financial news and pornography categories, but news services like Reuters now run summaries of the content of The Wall Street...
...Harvard School of Public Health, notes that studies have shown that long-term consumption of sugared drinks can double the risk of diabetes, with half of that risk due to the excess weight brought on by the calories, and the other half due to the beverages' high sugar content - mostly fructose. "This study provides the best argument yet that we should either decide to consume less sugar-sweetened beverages in general, or that we should conduct more research into the possibility of using other sweeteners that may be more glucose-based," says Matthias Tschoep, an obesity researcher at the Obesity...
...Frederick Douglass, who once said that those who want freedom without agitation “want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” But point out that these protests don’t make so much as a splash, and campus activists seem content in responding, “Well, at least I’m aware there’s an ocean...