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by akudha 1133 days ago
Reach, cost and effectiveness. Newspapers can't follow you around like social networking sites do. A handful of Twitter/FB accounts can do an amount of damage that newspapers can only dream of.

None of which is to say newspapers are great. After all, Murdoch honed his skills in print media first. Just that they are nowhere near as effective as online

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A newspaper owner, William Randolph Hearst, once started a war with Spain.
Yes I know, that’s why I mentioned Murdoch. He honed his villainy in print, before moving to TV and internet.