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Dan Kennedy
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by Dan Kennedy - Mar. 9, 2009

David Carr, as good a media columnist as there is, has produced a series of columns recently promoting discredited ideas, mainly the notion of charging for online content. A far more promising model would be to charge much more for the still-robust print edition, an idea he has yet to discover.

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