Howard is right — Craig isn’t to blame
In his excellent list of 10 things we should realize about the newspaper business, Ryan Sholin mentioned that it isn’t Craig Newmark’s fault that newspapers have been losing ground in classified advertising. Dan Kennedy takes issue with that argument in a recent post of his own — and Howard Owens responds here that he thinks Dan is wrong and Ryan is right (following all that?).
For whatever it’s worth, I just wanted to throw my support behind Howard on this one: newspapers failed to respond to customers or think creatively about their classified businesses until craigslist came along and showed them how. That is not Craig Newmark’s fault — it is the newspapers industry’s fault.
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