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In an era of plummeting circulation and competition from free online news sources, as far as a cost-benefits analysis of newspaper investigations goes - it’s all cost and no benefit. … You know them from Woodward and Bernstein’s book, All The President’s…Likewise online news sources play their part although, frankly, they can be divided into two camps - brand extension for established media companies or total horseshit. … Newspaper have no part in this Venn Diagram, lacking both the thoroughness and longevity of books and the immediacy of television….I’d give each author twelve months to write the book - minimum - on the basis that it should be the definitive book on the subject, like All The President’s Men or Hell’s Angels. … But while they were working, I’d encourage the authors to post extracts of their research - and previews of their findings - online….£50 a year for 12 books - one a month. And I’d sell them singly online….

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