QUOTE(thekohser @ Sun 20th February 2011, 10:45pm)
Jimbo may even 'impregnate' you!
Yes, but
will he finally divorce his first wife so he can 'marry' you? That's the big question here.
Also, I never bothered to point out that this "Matthew Freud quote" is actually a misplaced, if not incorrect, analogy.
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A baker sells fresh bread each day and gives away the previous day’s stale bread. By contrast the media gives away its fresh product (online) and sells the previous day’s product (print)...
First of all, anyone who actually feeds himself (as opposed to having a house full of servants do it for you) should know that it takes several days for bread to become stale. Whereas the media continues to give away the same stories for free online long after they've been written. Some people prefer the greater convenience, stability, and archivability of print media, and are willing to pay for them - these things are actually advantages, and they don't preclude buyers from also getting the same stories for free online too, before or after the print editions come out. Putting that aside, though, is Freud suggesting that the media should be
more like bakers, in that they should sell their online content and give away their print content merely because the print content has a time lag?
If the analogy has to be
bakers, then it should look more like this:
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An internet-savvy baker goes online and describes the bread he's going to bake that day, complete with pictures and reviews of his previous efforts, and then he bakes the bread and sells it, and whatever he can't sell he gives away after it goes stale, several days later. By contrast, the media goes online and gives away their fresh product, complete with pictures and reviews, and continues to give it away as long as they can afford to keep running their website, but they also sell a paper version of the same product, which can be read without electricity and can last for decades before mold starts growing on it, depending on storage conditions.
Only that's an even worse analogy, because while it's more accurate, it doesn't make any sense
as an analogy, nor does it support what Freud (and by extension, Jimbo) is trying to suggest.
So, what can we conclude from this? Obviously, Matthew Freud needs work on his analogies, and Jimbo needs work on choosing other people's analogies to crib from - this much we already know. Beyond that, they haven't unloaded Wikinews yet, so either they haven't gotten a good-enough offer, or they don't think they can get away with it.
I'm guessing they've given up on the idea, because nobody in their right mind would actually pay them for it. It is, to use an analogy that's actually accurate, a pig in a poke.
Paid editing, finally gets a full discussion
