If there are sports bars where all walls are covered with TV screens showing games and sports newscasts, why are there no news bars? Imagine a place filled with TVs that report news non-stop. Such a bar would sell a ton of liquor in the very first night.
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They say journalism is in search of a business model, and it looks like you’ve found it. I’ll drink to that.
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I don’t think it’ll work, people mosty go to bars to get away from the news…
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The news does make some people want to drink, but would people go into a bar to watch it?
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The business model of the sports bar is intimately intertwined with the business model of the bookie. Perhaps the news bar could be the venue for so-called “prediction markets.”
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