«the decline of the older medium may not occur immediately; under competitive pressure the traditional medium can squeeze more out of its arsenal – even actually increasing revenues for a period of time. Landes (1969: 260) noted three basic reasons for this: (1) creative technological response; (2) cutting costs and prices; and (3) widening markets and opportunities due to the increased demand brought about by the new technology’s efforts.» Lehman, 2004: 716

«What are the older medium’s possible reactions? First, attack – the best defence is a good offence. As a vehicle of communication, the threatened medium can propagandize against the newer competitor: the new medium’s content reliability and technical dependability might be questioned (Naughton, 2000). Also, fearmongering is not an uncommon ploy, where the print and electronic media play up the internet’s dark side: paedophilia, pornography, sales fraud, etc, that are actually but a very small part of the internet universe (see R¨ossler, 2001, for counter-evidence). Second, the older medium can try to cut off the new medium’s content sources. In the 1930s the newspaper industry tried to block news agencies from feeding news to the young radio medium (Emery and Emery, 1988).» (717