San Francisco Bay Guardian | AAN.org
Tim Redmond says when
Craig Newmark's Craiglist enters a market, the existing community institutions -- the locally owned weekly newspaper, for example -- have a hard time competing. "In many ways, he's like a Wal-Mart -- yeah, landlords get cheaper real estate ads, and consumers find some bargains, but the money all goes out of town. And he puts nothing back into the community: He doesn't, for example, hire reporters or serve as a community watchdog." || Read about Newmark (above) at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
convention.
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San Antonio's Craigslist is not yet a threat to local media (SA Current)
