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Re: The unfullfilled promise
The Internet doesn't matter as much as many of us would have liked it to matter when it comes to news. Jennifer says people are lazy and she is partially right. However, an article you pointed to before sums it up better: [B]uyers don't want choice. They want just one significant vendor, and they will pay more and accept less in order to achieve that freedom from choice. The same goes for news. People don't want choice. Jennifer points out that a lot of people want to go to MSN or AOL (or ABC and CBS) for everything: I've heard a lot about Net users who do want to be able to find all their "vital" info in one place--be it through an instant-messaging client or whatever they've selected as their home page. They don't care if they are going to get overcharged or underinformed. As long as they can still stop by McD's for fries, life is good. There are responses to this message:
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