The The Oh, Welcome back to another sparkling edition of the Thought Police with me Mike Graham and

Matt Kelly editor of the New European.

Hello? Now one of the things we do quite a lot is we ask people to email us if they've

got things they want us to discuss and quite a few people lately have been

emailing us about the state of the media and the state of newspapers and online businesses and all of that.

Tell us about what you're looking at there.

So there's an email from Hugh Bessens.

Okay, thank you, Hugh.

Hi guys, printed newspapers are clearly dying because the people who buy them are literally dying out, that's true,

and online newspapers are all very clunky as far as I can tell.

I want a written medium where there's space to

explain and justify and present both sides of an argument. How could that work?

I note the athletic thing for sports. that's an interesting topic to talk about

but do they really expect us to pay another subscription is there an

advert funded model that could work yeah so I mean the question really about the

whole what is the future news consumption

yeah well in a way you're more qualified than I am to talk about this because you're running as you've told people

before a sort of an online version of local news, right?

But in a sort of in the round.

It's not just in one place, it's all over the place.

So I mean, the big mistake that we all made as an industry was that we started giving it all away for free

you know online because we thought that was the that was the thing to do if you remember it started

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