Two Heavyweights Duke It Out over Micropay for Content

PBS.org's MediaShift recently hosted a two-part debate by two men with big credentials and even bigger opinions. The issue was whether newspapers should charge for online content.

Moderator Mark Glaser did his best to keep the dispute civil. Taking the pro-micropay position was David Carr, who writes the "Media Equation" column for the business section of the New York Times. In the other corner, opposing micropayments - virulently opposing micropayments - was Mike Masnick, an outspoken and influential blogger and founder of the Techdirt website. The photo at right not them.

Read The Great Debate on Micropayments and Paid Content, Part 1, then Part 2.

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