If you were mainstream media and you were used to making money off ads and then you were given access to a communications medium like the Internet that would ship your content off in all directions at a minute fraction of the cost of your previous technology, would you try to kill it?
What brought this question out of me was this:
Count the ads in this thing. There are six glowing, blinking, highly animated ads on this screenshot (and there were two more below). All follow the traditional media zero-relevance rule for advertisement provision.
And before this page comes up, you are treated to an AJAX based full-screen ad that is not a popup, but operates exactly like a popup. So it cannot be blocked.
It's apparent to me that the previous advertising business model is alive and well and that content is being provided and that the cost of content provision has fallen.
So, I am befuddled.
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