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Two decades (pass) since newspapers launched websites, and yet here we are. Big papers have gone under, thousands of journalists have lost (they) jobs, and the idea that digital news will eventually become a decent business (feel) like a rumor(谣言). The reality is this: no social network has come close to matching the success of print readership.