At the same time, the barons of old-line newspapers and broadcast TV seem to have realized it's pointless to keep fighting the shift online, but they're still unsure how to embrace it. And they're struggling to attract new online users just to survive.No matter how bad it gets, these 'baron' of lies, filth and garbage will never convert their products to real journalistic outlets any more than their paper products have much journalistic cred. Instead they will look for ways to control the internet as the solution to their problems. Even if the theory of competition as the way to stimulate and drive growth and prosperity was ever more than propaganda, the current crop of 'barons' certainly don't believe in it.
It's too bad for the United States, of course, because barons, with or without royal titles, are a sign of deteriorating times. The media, the banking industry, the telecomms, the energy industry, the auto industry. All barons of the power of inflexibility and overarching mismanagement.
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