Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 02, 2019

There’s more money in payday lending.

Maybe Oldbot could make money by not printing certain items.

The law used to be that no one company could own more than one tv or radio station in any area. The local paper would own one station and make a decent profit. Then Reagan deregulated things to help create Fox News …

Variations on the words multitask and fusion.

Is this why many gas stations are now also convenience grocery stores?

How about writing fiction? Oh wait, that’s redundant.

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

“Who shall guard these guards?”

He’s trying to clean up his act, or your act.

They could start a fish wrapping service.

Let’s clarify that some.

You mean, for their owners to rake in the same profits they came to expect during the 20th century, they must embrace other revenue sources. In the digital age, newspapers can operate now with a greatly reduced overhead compared to the print age. And for a few major dailies, they can operate at huge net margins, mainly because one of those new streams is the sale of their work product to other smaller papers.

This, naturally, greatly simplifies the current publishing situation. But it does underscore the role owners’ expectations play in overstating the gravity of it.

So newspapers are getting so expensive that you get taken to the cleaners?