Posted by joris
on 13/10/2009, 23:32:05, in reply to "Re: Don Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, father of Queen Paola"
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Do you really think people actually buy hard copy newspapers because of this old news which isn't even on the frontpage? How would they know (unless they would read the newspaper at the newsstand?). Don't blame the messenger, the newspaper, but the author of the book. Newspapers publish about the release of books, including this one. The customer should decide if it's worth while to buy/read. It's only praiseworthy that they don't pretend they have the right of censorship with regard to publications.
Some read the news in a hard copy form, some on the internet. Are the internet news providers seen as "selling" their products? We read this here: on the internet. Free. We don't buy Het Laatste Nieuws but know about the content of the article... Reading the news on the internet would be as bad as buying a newspaper then. I bet that the internet readers are more eager to read all this than the actual newspaper buyers. Especially Het Laatste Nieuws readers are NOT the readers who'd be interested in the Belgian monarchy.