Newspapers judge that articles on the new RTBF site are unfair comptition, given that RTBF articles are payed by the government.The RTBF site is slooow, but that might just be a youth disease.
Having worked for the Corelio newspapers, I've seen the difficulty of making an online newspaper profitable.
You can argue that a public server is not needed where a good commercial service exists.
Then again, I would not like to see public television dropped in favour of commercial television, which is a case that is very similar to the public/commercial e-newspaper debate.
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9 September 2010
French/Belgian newspapers sue public television
18 June 2010
Google to introduce micropayment links
According to La Repubblica Google is developing a pay-per-click system, for visiting indexed links, called Newspass. Content propviders will be able to offer text, images and video that is found and payed through Google.
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