Why Do Newspaper Web Sites Look Like Newspapers?

I’m curious. Because newspaper is a medium. The reason newspapers have layouts that look like crammed, painful columns on the page is because it costs money to print them and they usually have more content than space available. Necessarily, the layout is based on the need to fit as much content as possible in a small space.

But web sites don’t have this constraint. Yet, newspaper web sites still look like their printed relatives.

Wouldn’t it be better to layout the web site around the content instead the content around the web site?

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