Homework - Build the Wall Analysis

Section 1 

Within the first section of the article, I believe that David is talking about both newspapers and the internet. He is using them and comparing them for example stating things about each for example internet is free unlike newspapers as customers may have to pay for certain once. Accessing the new on the internet can be done through news websites like the bbc. However reading news from a news papers is totally different thing from reading new from a laptop screen for example some people may still want to read an actual newspaper than finding out the new over the internet. This goes along with the fact ever though we have access to new on the internet for quit a while help still read newspapers at the minute.

Section 2 

In this section of the newspaper article is about how time and how it is a enemy for newspapers.  however, and the wariness and caution with which the Times and The Post approach the issue reveal not only how slow industry leaders have been to accurately assess the realities, but how vulnerable one national newspaper is to the other. Should the Times go behind a pay curtain while the Post remains free, or vice versa. I believe that from this article it shows that web sites have combined to batter paid print circulation figures, more people are reading the product of America’s newspapers than ever before. Certainly more of them are reading the Times (nearly 20 million average unique visitors monthly) and the Post (more than 10 million monthly unique visitors)

Section 3 

This section shows the percentage of sun reader which is 10 per cent of the existing 210,000 Baltimore Sun reader. The questions that this raises is why pay for subscription for example who pay a subscription rate less than half the price of home delivery, or roughly $10, would represent about $2.5 million a year. This section is all about the pay wall and wanting people to pay.

Section 4 

Lastly within this section is all about how having the pay wall can be a risk. For example many things will be attached to this example of this are without local readers getting free national, international, and cultural reporting from the national papers,


Overall, in my opinion I wouldn't want to pay for the news when I am able to access it online for free.  People still access the new through newspapers which seem to be dying however are still being produced which shows that people still read them. The whole pay wall situation is a risk as some people may want to pay however me personal wouldn't want to.

- If news were not free, there would be enough people willing to pay for it to cover the cost of producing it. But suppose the New York Times suddenly started charging for online access; although it is a great newspaper, I probably wouldn't pay for it. There are just too many free alternatives that are almost as good. Even if (for example) no other online news source were as good as the Times, the remaining news sources will collectively fill the gap.
The economic parlance, you have goods which are near perfect substitutes. If I can't read Paul Krugman's column, I can go read some other noble prize winning economist's latest available(and accessible) column. Likewise, if I can't read Thomas Freidman, I can get the same kind of hype from a used car lot advertisement.

This statement shows, that news papers companies may have to have change their option to have for example free online news. Rather than producing actual newspapers as this cost money and news on the internet can be accessed for free. 

The lack of imagination on display in this article is jaw-dropping.

If, in five years, any part of this article can be looked back upon as anything other than a completely wrong-headed assessment of the state of the industry, if a reasonable person will be able to look back from 2014 on any of the suggestions and say either, "That would have been a good thing to try" or "Thank goodness they did that," I will eat a Baltimore Orioles hat while standing naked in Times Square.

#14 Posted by King Kaufman on Sat 18 Jul 2009 at 04:13 AM

This comment shows that newspapers aren't dying as still available to the public, if newspapers had dyed out then no newspapers would be produced and everybody would get their news from teh internet.