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Wed Mar 24 22:44:36 +0000 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman @evefairbanks I can imagine them boasting at board meetings about how many new younger readers were reading their online offerings without paying. What a clever strategy to create the next generation of newspaper readers. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 24, 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

The eternal harm that newspapers did in the early 2000s by putting their content online without charge continues to haunt us. Even those too young to remember, say, 2003 grew up in a culture where the expectation was that "news is free." — PolitiTweet.org

Eve Fairbanks @evefairbanks

Yes, executives suck. But I really think more of the blame for the state of journalism has to go on us readers. I’v… https://t.co/RgbtH9TZzR

Posted March 24, 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@toddinphx @dannowicki I agree. It drives me crazy that I have to fully subscribe to everything or cannot get anything. I wish I could purchase the equivalent of an all-access pass to a bunch of newspaper websites that I look at infrequently. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 24, 2021

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