{"id":1020,"date":"2008-11-14T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2008-11-14T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:53:38","slug":"the-cable-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"The Cable Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking today about the problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajr.org\/Article.asp?id=4623\">newspapers<\/a> are having making money.  Their subscriptions and advertisements are plunging and they can&#8217;t figure out a way to make the internet pay.  The NYT is a perfect example &#8212; their web operation is stunning, but it&#8217;s not making money.<\/p>\n<p>The solution?  How about charging the ISP&#8217;s?  That&#8217;s roughly how cable companies work.  I pay Time Warner X dollars for access to channels.  They turn around and pay each channel Y_i dollars for content.  It&#8217;s turned out to work pretty well.  So the New York Times and other sites should start charging ISPs for access.  They are, after all, the reason I pay Time Warner such an outrageous amount of money for internet access in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking today about the problems newspapers are having making money. Their subscriptions and advertisements are plunging and they can&#8217;t figure out a way to make the internet pay. The NYT is a perfect example &#8212; their web operation is stunning, but it&#8217;s not making money. The solution? How about charging the ISP&#8217;s? That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cable Model<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-gs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}