We're So SMRT!

So...

1) Online readers love to read news

BUT

2) Advertisers no longer want to advertise with it

SO, WHO WILL PAY FOR THE NEWS? ANSWER:

3) Telco/Cable Monopolies

WHO

4) Buy up newspaper organizations (already doing so and will increasingly pick up the remaining scraps, dirt cheap)

AND

5) Charge subscribers in their monthly bill.

So instead of reading newspapers for $100/year subscription, we’ll pay min $500/yr (in Canada) to read news online (and Twitter, and Facebook, and watch porn) via our internet bill, and an extra $600/yr to get it on our mobile phones. Instead of $100 for news, we pay $1100.

Wow, our generation is so advanced. We just agreed to the biggest upsell in history.