They Let Them Out Alive.
I love this quote from Alan D. Mutter in the New York Times as he explains the number of emerging blogs and why it will be difficult to get people to pay for online news -except for publications that already charge, like the Wall Street Journal and Consumer Reports.
But for most general-interest news, any paid site would be competing with alternative versions of the same articles, delivered by multiple free news sources.
“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them loose to start so many blogs,” Mr. Mutter said. “They should have executed them. They wouldn’t have had competition. But they foolishly let them out alive.”
Now there’s a sense of humor from a journalist.