As the Fox Noise Network is practically the mouthpiece of the Republican party and the oil and drug companies, I’m sure they will be propped up either through some kind of government windfall or directly through cash infusions from the Republican Party and Exxon Mobil.

You already see those “This segment brought to you by Pfizer” ads on Fox Noise.

MSNBC is well, Microsoft.

CNN has always kind of been the Fox Noise of the left.

And between all three, the govenment can still control what they report on and what they don’t through the FCC.

These “news” organizations are far too valuable to the government and to special interests to let fail.

Have you noticed all those corporate whitewashing commercials on how Exxon Mobil will save us all with hydrogen tech? How many Exxon stations, or how many cars for that matter, run on hydrogen fuel cells?

It’s not a fault of anyone if newspapers are not performing in the expected way and, on the other side, if they’re not competitive in digital world.

Maybe newspapers owners and CEOs thought that when the brand “New York Times” or similar accepted the challenge of being on the net, everybody on the internet would access they’re content.

Unfortunately is not like this in digital era, where information is mainly free for the end user and where good articles are available also to those that don’t write under big brands umbrella. I still love having news printed on paper (I’ve got a couple of subscriptions), but I access informations mainly from internet and free of charge.

I think that if newspapers don’t move out of they’re business model transposed to the net (i.e. subscription model) to reach a different one (e.g. pay per view or advertising or….who knows) they won’t be capable of surviving in this battle.

And this doesn’t pass through banning the ability to link news.