AOL’s Patch to go from local news network to community message board network

I really got to wonder how many new media pundits believe this quote from the article:

  > What’s more: The audience is solidly rooted in Middle America, 
  > not the coasts as it was before.
  > 
  > What does that demographic sound like? Oh yeah, people who don’t
  > realize they don’t have to pay for dial up and still go to AOL’s 
  > home page everyday.