Globe And Mail Publishes Online

“Here's a good example of how the internet is changing how we get news; due to a strike, they are publishing their entire edition online. It also demonstrates the struggle between big business and labour organisations. It'll be interesting to see what effect, if any, this will have long-term.”<br />
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The internet is changing how some people get the “news” <br />
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Excerpted from the article by Gary North<br />
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<a href="http://www.rense.com/general65/mains.htm">http://www.rense.com/general65/mains.htm</a><br />
Mainstream Media vs<br />
Upstream Media<br />
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“CONCLUSION <br />
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Mainstream media are losing to upstream media. This is eroding consensus among readers and TV viewers. Cable and satellite TV are undermining the networks. The Web is undermining the newspapers. Narrowcasting is undermining broadcasting. Home schools are undermining the tax-funded schools, though only at the fringes. Only the colleges seem immune, where government control is greatest. But they are becoming a laughingstock, even though parents still shell out far more than they need to (at least three times more) by sending their children off to college. Parents who know the system can get their kids through school for under $15,000 - maybe as little as $10,000 - which means that the kids can pay for their college educations by working part-time. The Establishment is on the defensive even in the halls of ivy. <br />
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This is becoming clear: price competition is now unstoppable. If you are not in a position to sell something cheaper, you are in big trouble. This fact is killing the mainstream media, which lost its ability to compete after 80 years of government regulation and protection. It is going to kill every other cozy little arrangement with the state. <br />
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Sell services, not stuff. Sell services locally, where Chinese college graduates cannot compete. Sell information, where Chinese college graduates cannot compete . . . and not many American college graduates can, either. <br />
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This is the era in which everything mainstream is hitting the rapids. The mainstreamers thought they were cruising up a lazy river. They weren't. <br />
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"What's that noise?" <br />
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Gary North [send him mail, gary@kbot.com> is the author of Mises on Money. Visit <a href="http://www.freebooks.com">http://www.freebooks.com</a>. He is also the author of a free multi-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible. “<br />
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It isn’t a question, Jesse, of whether or not this applies, <br />
“It'll be interesting to see what effect, if any, this will have long-term.”<br />
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Because there will be long-term effects. Bet on it!<br />
Jobs will be lost. <br />
Livelihoods will be lost <br />
Collective bargaining will all but disappear.<br />
Corporate controlled socialism will rule. <br />
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CORRECTION:change will rule to does rule

<blockquote> This is the era in which everything mainstream is hitting the rapids. The mainstreamers thought they were cruising up a lazy river. They weren't. </blockquote> I like that metaphor a lot. Good contributions, and good information!<p>---<br>Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.