From: Hunter on 4 Jun 2010 00:11 How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries now have a government funded online news service? Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it.
From: Hunter on 4 Jun 2010 00:28 Correction: abc.net.au/news "Hunter" <hunter(a)grome.zo.oct> wrote in message news:hu9ud7$upr$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries > now have a government funded online news service? Our is news.abc.net.au > and they will never charge for it. >
From: Dingo on 4 Jun 2010 00:56 On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:28:51 +1000, "Hunter" <hunter(a)grome.zo.oct> wrote: >Correction: abc.net.au/news > >"Hunter" <hunter(a)grome.zo.oct> wrote in message >news:hu9ud7$upr$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most countries >> now have a government funded online news service? Our is news.abc.net.au >> and they will never charge for it. Pedant AND a top poster.....
From: Hunter on 4 Jun 2010 01:07 "Dingo" <dingo(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:8q1h06hi6t41km3k5sfha479mvouocvn9g(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:28:51 +1000, "Hunter" <hunter(a)grome.zo.oct> > wrote: > >>Correction: abc.net.au/news >> >>"Hunter" <hunter(a)grome.zo.oct> wrote in message >>news:hu9ud7$upr$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most >>> countries >>> now have a government funded online news service? Our is >>> news.abc.net.au >>> and they will never charge for it. > > Pedant AND a top poster..... Noted. Now deal with the subject matter.
From: Rod Speed on 4 Jun 2010 01:40
Hunter wrote: > How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most > countries now have a government funded online news service? In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites with news. Dubious proposition tho. > Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it. Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc. |