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Sep 21, 2008

竭澤而漁 kill the goose that lays the golden egg

竭 (drain) 澤 (pond) 而 (and) 漁 (fish)

Who would be foolish enough to drain the pond to get to the fish?


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"Are
Newspapers Doomed? --Richard Posner, June 2008

The concern, in short, is that the Internet will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. But this is unlikely. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out of their online advertising revenues, which will be greater for an Internet news service that attracts additional viewers by offering them richer, newspaper-type fare. Indeed, long after newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have ceased print publication, their Web sites may be among the leading Internet news services."


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The blogs are a big factor here; in the aggregate, they not only are nimbler, but contain a vastly greater body of specialized knowledge, than the newspapers or other conventional media (as Dan Rather learned to his sorrow)."

What's this post, neither fish nor fowl?
Actually, it's just another kettle of fish for my dear readers :)

A more commonly used character for fish:

in (fish) just means
water, a different form of
.

not only means out of ,
but
in the as well.


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