The idea sounds a bit like OPEC. The newspapers will control the "truth." This approach speaks paragraphs about the way newspapers see themselves. A new technology threatens to erode profits. More than profits, power. The newspapers will control the "truth" and there's going to be what ... a truth tax?
Voltaire said, "to a philosopher, all news is gossip." It seems that newspapers have carved out market niche which is about delivering information in a speedy way. For example, 9/11 happens and everyone clamors for as much information as quickly as they can get it. Later, books come out.
The internet (really just the old telephone system that's been around for more than a century) means people can talk to each other about what they've heard, seen, and believe.
Perhaps some sort of cap can be put on that, but the cost of doing so might be many times that of the technology that the papers are trying to protect.
I think these attempts to control the truth are not going to succeed and in trying to control information, they will make themselves even more irrelevant.
The idea sounds a bit like OPEC. The newspapers will control the "truth." This approach speaks paragraphs about the way newspapers see themselves. A new technology threatens to erode profits. More than profits, power. The newspapers will control the "truth" and there's going to be what ... a truth tax?
Voltaire said, "to a philosopher, all news is gossip." It seems that newspapers have carved out market niche which is about delivering information in a speedy way. For example, 9/11 happens and everyone clamors for as much information as quickly as they can get it. Later, books come out.
The internet (really just the old telephone system that's been around for more than a century) means people can talk to each other about what they've heard, seen, and believe.
Perhaps some sort of cap can be put on that, but the cost of doing so might be many times that of the technology that the papers are trying to protect.
I think these attempts to control the truth are not going to succeed and in trying to control information, they will make themselves even more irrelevant.