You Know Things are Bad When the LAT Sells an A-1 Ad -- and Not a Wrap

And 150 years ago, there were tons of ads on page one, and ALL of them looked like editorial content. They were distinguished mostly by having the notation "--Adv." at the end.

Ad revenue keeps journalists employed and their children fed.

 

Because they aren't remotely the same thing, technologically speaking.

Why don't newspapers have to pay ISPs to deliver their web sites to homes, the same way you have to pay a shipping company to deliver products shipped to customers via mail?

 

I said journalism. You say newspapers.
I'm differentiating the two. My original post:

As to the salient point made by Buck: The problem: charging per usage by each website for disseminated information is a different beast than a video feed acquired by a cable or satellite provider. The monitoring is an algorithm or all algorithms.