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Elson R. Trinidad (ertrinid@aludra.usc.edu) wrote:
: Actually, most of a newspaper is actually advertisements. News doesn't
: make money for a newspaper, corporate and classified advertisements do.

News is what sells newspapers. It is the difference between a NEWSpaper
and an ADvertiser. ADvertisers are freebies that clutter up your
driveway and doorway. People are not paying money for a NEWSpaper
to read the ads. They can get the same ads for free in an ADvertiser.
It is the NEWS that they are paying the money for. It is what enables
a NEWSpaper to charge more for an ad. The news is what makes people 
read the newspaper so the advertisers know that their ads have some 
chance of being read instead of going straight to the garbage can or 
bird cage. So news does make the money for the newspaper.

: Damn right. And with that, the Usenet Newsgroups are also the "press."
: I mean, a NEWSgroup also carries NEWS, right?

Very correct. Electronic BBS such as Usenet and Compuserve were major
sources of news during the last couple of big quakes in California.
I saw notices in the appropriate news groups about the status of
people I knew in southern California after the last quake. (All OK.)
It is an amateur news media and the quality of the news one gets
is typical of the uneven quality of amateurs but Usenet is a NEWS
media. I see more NEWS about ballot propositions here than from
any other source when an election is forthcoming.  

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