One of my hypotheses for the ongoing death of the newspaper industry — at least in the form we recognize — is that its costs are huge.  It takes a lot of money to lay out, print, and distribute hundreds of thousands or millions of physical newspapers — particularly compared to online news.  But the relative cost of printing and distributing a newspaper pales in comparison to the cost of fixing a mistake once the paper is in distribution.  Case in point:

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(Hat tip: Megan McArdle)

When I fuck up a post on Blunt Object, it’s trivially easy for me to go back and fix it.  What’s the L.A. Times going to do about this?  What can they do?