Can you back this up?
@11 “I think a large part of the difficulty is the underlying concept the advertising should aubsidize news.”
The underlying concept, which is a very old one, was created by people who bought printing presses to go into business as job shops that made their money by produced advertising circulars. At some point, they figured out that adding news content more than paid for itself because it got more people to read the advertisements.
Certainly printing and handbills both predate print advertising.
I also wonder what role paid adverts paid in nthe pamphleteering that was important to the American & French revolutions?
As for today's ST, I utterly agree. I suspect it is little more than sport pages plus legal notices plus fish wrapper.
HMMMMM ....
If the paper bag initiative failed, maybe we could have one to tax the sale of paper newspapers?
Of course, the ST would then claim that we were restricting free speech. BUT, our atttornies could then charge that the only content of the ST is fish wrapper and wrapping paper is not free speech?
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