“The Sun says tweets and blogs threaten future of paper,” the Financial Times breathlessly reports:
Online news sources such as Twitter and celebrity-focused blogs could put newspapers like The Sun out of business, its editor told a parliamentary committee on Thursday.
Dominic Mohan said that if such sites were able to report scandals that newspapers were forbidden to write about because of privacy injunctions, readers and advertising money could flow from the press to the internet.
Mr Mohan told the privacy and injunctions committee of peers and MPs: “We are competing for eyeballs with social media.”
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Needless to say, this isn’t exactly breaking news.
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