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Originally Posted by PornMD
The only way it'd work is if all other major news sites collude to do the same around the same time. Otherwise people will just go elsewhere, except of course for sheeple republicans (not calling all republicans sheeple but there's certainly some of them) that have to have the republican bias in their news and would pay to do so.
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That's what I was saying above. I have a strong feeling the other news outlets will quickly fall in line. The reason: the added viewership they might gain by staying free won't matter since on-line ad revenue isn't enough to keep them afloat, even if they doubled it in most cases.
On-line ad revenue only works when your product is free to produce or virtually free. It will never command the type of money that TV/radio/newspaper advertising does regardless of traffic. This is a proven fact now so on-line newspaper sites don't really care about free traffic anymore since it's been proven unable to support their costs.
There are no options left. This may not work, but it's all they can do. On-line ad revenue simply won't cover the costs of actual journalism.