Why would you want to do that?
Let those business models die as quickly and quietly as possible.
Give me a smart, regular citizen dude or dudette with a blog who keeps up with what’s happening and can provide me with some context and sift through the misinformation, narrative promotion, salesmanship and manipulation for me.
Newspapers are dead, why would I want to reanimate them to watch ads?
I’ve thought of pursuing this idea, then realized how little diversification there is in the media marketplace. You got a couple big players, several medium sized players, and a brief scattering of small players.
If the big players can’t be bothered to figure it out, they sure won’t think twice about taking whatever solution someone presents and running with it themselves.
But if someone wanted to do it on a smaller scale, create a ‘press pass’ account framework where you can subscribe to a region, it allows you to create additional accounts for your family members, and would be a great place for nationals or internationals to add on subscriptions for a nominal price.
Main advantage of doing it that way is consolidating costs (those network fees for subscriptions sure add up), marketing gets firm demographics to sell to advertisers, and no one has to constantly reinvent the wheel in putting together login, billing, view tracking.
But without a systems patent, I don’t know how you aren’t just giving this to USAToday or the like.
Tell us the impact of your proposal on FreeRepublic.