Sure, his interview with the Toledo Blade about the future of newspapers was fine and dandy, but his chiding of the public to realize that free online content really costs something to produce is silly.
As long as papers give away online content, people will continue to push for it to be free. That’s why the paywall push, to have broad success, needs broad top-down as well as bottom-up local newspaper support.
And, while Dean Singleton may be fine running Media News, he looks ever more incompetent at the helm of the AP.
That said, I do support Sen. Ben Cardin's bill that would allow newspaper-ONLY newspaper companies (no TV or radio ownership) to go non-profit.
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