[mudil]

Serious question. How is it that Google makes billions of dollars on ads and newspapers that depend on ads are suffering?

[Jyaif]

Because depending on ads to pay journalists is a crappy business. Ads are worth it if the content with the ads is super cheap to generate (e.g. search result pages, or user generated content)

[Andrex]

What's the difference between Google and newspapers? A massive focus on technology.