Recon

The Unraveling of Newspaper Economics

Obviously you've never worked at a newspaper, and gotten your ass whooped by a competitor on a story, if you think they all have monopolies. Interesting that you tally up the content in the SF Examiner, rather than say the New York Times. And someone please alert the Chronicle to the Examiner's monopoly. Also, it's odd to use a free product in an essay accusing an industry of monopoly pricing. Which newspaper in New York has the monopoly: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Village Voice, Newsday, Am New York, Metro, The New York Observer, or El Diario? The added economic value isn't the generic third-party content, but the original content that each of these brings to the table, however small the percentage.