Newspapers Positioned To Drive New Information Highways

A House of Commons debate, sponsored by the Newspaper Society, voted decisively in favour of newspapers having a major role to play in new interactive media markets, but newspaper consultant Jim Chisholm warned that,in the UK,government legislation could stop the multimedia revolution getting off the ground.

Crenagh Lodge, chairman of CLK argued that newspapers would only be crushed on the new information highways if the newspaper industry wills it. “There is a compelling fascination for the exciting new interactive media and a contempt for the established product. The industry concentrates too much on threats and not on opportunities.

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