Reading a print newspaper is an all or nothing experience. You get the whole paper. There's no selectively buying the sports section, or just the auto classifieds. Most news Web sites aren't much different.
Content is aggregated into a single site which is visited by a Web user.
What's not possible in print, and is not currently in practice from news Web sites, is making it possible for a news consumer to have any little bit of a news organization's content delivered. Frankly, I've thought this was a good idea for a long time. From a selfish perspective, wouldn't it be great to not have to buy a print edition of my local newspaper, and not have to remember to visit its Web site. Instead, I'd be pleased as punch to have the ability to select which parts of the newspaper I wanted to receive daily, and have them turn up in my e-mail inbox. According to Times general manager of Web publishing Ronald Dupont Jr. , his site will build toward having a system that can e-mail an Internet user any bit of information desired from the Web site's stable of content.