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On 2016-07-15, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> 
>>> I just don't get it. What is the fascination with this game?
>>>
>> Even old media covers "viral" stories.  But I have no idea if they got 
>> good travel before landing in old media, or if old media is a vector for 
>> that high travel.
>
> More likely it is this: "if we 'cover' those 'viral' stories, we get
> more ad impressions, therefore we get more ad revenue".
>
> I.e., they (old media) are covering it not because it is at all
> newsworthy, but because they are chasing dollars.

Yet another reason to let the "free content in exchange for advertising
dollars" model die in a fire.  Once you have to pay for content the balance
of content will be different, and niche subjects of quality - if they find
enough readers willing to pay - will be able to sustain themselves. 
Essentially, the same model as the print magazines had back "in the day."
The only thing to have changed will be the medium from paper to digital.

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    Re: Pokemon Go Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-15 19:48 +1000
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    Re: Pokemon Go Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-07-15 16:37 +0000
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