However, that's NOT IT AT ALL:
"The Times Co. is studying means for charging for some news content online as advertising sales and circulation continue to decline.... The Times Co. also owns The Boston Globe.
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I'm not paying TWICE for the same divisive, lying, obfuscating, omitting, agenda-pushing, Muslim-hating, war-promoting, enemy-creating, Zionist garbage!
The day they CHARGE for WEB CONTENT is the day I STOP BUYING the PAPER and STOP GOING to my BIG-CITY WAR DAILY -- just like I did the NYT!
I NEVER click on their website anymore (even though the Globe is their bastard step-child)!
I guess it's good-bye....
"New website expects 10% to pay for news; Journalism Online details model as it seeks publishers" by Michael Liedtke, Associated Press | June 25, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - A start-up planning to sell news online is hoping to get money from about 10 percent of Internet readers, who are accustomed to mostly free access to newspaper and magazine websites since the 1990s.
Then yer done, MSM! I'll write on-the-ground live experiences and reports, and blog my little butt away. It'll be a relief not counteracting the daily dose of drivel and the sooner you'll be out of business.
Because EXPERIENCE has shown when I DON'T ACTUALLY READ a NEWSPAPER, I'm LESS LIKELY to READ THEIR STORIES and POST BLOGS LINKING THEIR SITES and EVENTUALLY CEASE VISITING the SITE ALTOGETHER!
Do you WANT ME as a PATRON?
Then START TELLING DAMN TRUTH rather than the UNENDING RAFT of HALF-TRUTHS, DISTORTIONS, and OUTRIGHT FABRICATIONS you peddle every day!!
The still-developing venture, Journalism Online, made the projection yesterday in a New York meeting with reporters. Journalism Online’s fee expectations are more optimistic than in some industry studies, which have assumed newspapers and magazines probably shouldn’t count on more than 2 percent of their online audiences to pay for coverage that has been given away for years.
It's OVER and the BLOGS have WON because of the LIES!
If it hits its targets, executives at Journalism Online believe it will generate tens of millions of new income for publishers trying to overcome a steep decline in their main source of revenue: advertising sold for print editions.
You think I'm on here railing because I'm liking the lies?
In the newspaper industry alone, more than 25 percent of the print ad revenue - nearly $13 billion annually - has evaporated since 2005 as readers and some advertisers migrate to the Internet. The online advertising sales have not been nearly enough to offset the revenue that has disappeared on the print side.
Hey, they DID IT TO THEMSELVES -- and ARE CONTINUING TO DO IT!
Exhibit A: IRAN!
The downturn has convinced a wide range of print publishers that they must start charging people to read at least some of their online stories - even if it drives away some of the Web traffic that helps sell Internet ads.
You BITIN' my LINKIN' hand, Globe?
No, I'm serious now, no more bluster. If they do that, it TRULY IS GOODBYE!!!
I just WON'T BOTHER GOING THERE anymore.
Journalism Online thinks it can help by serving a smorgasbord of newspaper and magazine content that enables readers to pay one vendor for coverage pulled from multiple websites.
Can readers request MY BLOG next to the Globe?
Ahem: I WANT $$$!!!!! I have NO ADS here because I'M UNFILTERED!!!
The opinions and rants are MINE and MINE ALONE!!!!
The only "corruption" -- if you can call it that" -- is WHAT I HAVE LEARNED about MY NATION since MARCH 2003 because I KNEW THAT ONE wasa LIE!
And then I WORKED BACKWARD and which event do you think was the FIRST STOP?
That's right, that damn day!
Subscription packages, for instance, might cater to Web surfers willing to pay for the best stories about entertainment, business, or something more specialized, such as California politics.
Look at the CRAP they push -- and they WANT TO CHARGE YOU!!
Notice the POLITICS is pushed LAST!?
Yeah, DON'T GET INVOLVED with that!
Leave that up to the GLOBALIST MONSTERS and MASTERS!
Publishers would share the revenue collected by Journalism Online, which believes subscribers will pay an average of $25 a month for professionally produced stories on the Web. The estimate was drawn from a survey last month.
You will be getting nothing from me because I recognize the agenda when I see it now.
Besides opening a new revenue spigot, charging for Internet content also would help newspapers and magazines preserve the value of their print franchises, according to Journalism Online’s co-chief executive, Steve Brill. He reasons people will have less reason to stop buying the print editions if they can’t get as much online news coverage for free....
Yeah, THAT'S ME!!
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And WHO wants to protect the value of BULLS***?
Members of the.... money-losing.... (Blog editor's note: I couldn't resist) Boston Globe’s largest union got their first look at a new package of deep pay and benefit cuts last night, and many still don’t like it. But given the alternative - a 23 percent pay cut that appears for the first time in today’s paychecks - union members and officials say they expect the $10 million in concessions to be ratified next month....
Union leaders are recommending the proposal....
Karen Mussari, 35, who works in the finance department, figured the new proposal is worse for her than the initial offer, which she voted to reject. She said she’ll vote no again.
“I’m very disappointed,’’ she said. “This is worse than the first one. I can’t in good conscience vote for it.’’
Brian Mooney, a longtime reporter and an outspoken opponent of the initial offer, said, “I’m still a no. I just might stop screaming about it.’’
The Globe’s financial situation requires Guild members to make sacrifices to keep the paper viable, said Michael Paulson, a reporter....
Then the mob beat 'em up.
;-)
--more--"And then they wentt back to putting out "one of the best papers in America."
If the paper is so dog-gone good, why minimize one of their (allegedly) finest moments?
"Globe reporters receive merit award" by Katie Johnston Chase, Globe Staff | June 25, 2009
The Boston Globe’s account of the life and death of 14-year-old Acia Johnson has won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
The Globe story, by Keith O’Brien and Donovan Slack, chronicled the life of Johnson, a rising basketball star at South Boston’s Patrick F. Gavin Middle School who was killed in a house fire with her 3-year-old sister, Sophia.
The story exposed flaws in the state system to protect children who have been neglected by their parents and helped initiate new policies....
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They Died in Each Others Arms
Because the STATE FAILED to "protect" them!!!!
Acia and Sophia Johnson, killed in April in an arson fire, weren't even supposed to be living with their mother.
Yet DSS will be knocking at YOUR DOOR if someone makes an anonymous call!
And yet,
"Social workers never realized the children were living at the South Boston house even though the workers repeatedly visited them there, and even though their mother reported they were living there when she applied for food stamps, cash assistance, and housing subsidies."
But they DIDN'T KNOW!! Pfffft!
Oh, this item is a heart-ripper!
"State's errors detailed in deaths of two sisters" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | December 19, 2008
The state agency responsible for children failed at the most fundamental levels to save the lives of two South Boston sisters who survived years of neglect in a home torn by drug addiction, violence, and emotional dysfunction only to die in one another's arms in an arson fire in April, an investigation by the state's new advocate for children found.
Oh, the FEAR, TERROR, and HORROR those BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN MUST HAVE FELT!!!!!
Social workers from the Department of Children and Families who visited repeatedly documented neglect of the children, but failed to stop it, the investigation concluded. Caseworkers failed to perform even rudimentary checks with police or other agencies whose information would have clearly signaled trouble. The department's internal records were so poor, the probe found, that officials failed even to "connect the dots" of the information they themselves had collected. Those failures allowed the plight of 14-year-old Acia Johnson and 3-year-old Sophia to go unnoticed, the investigation found.
"By leading lives involved with drugs, crime, and violence, the parents exposed their children to the violence of other people with similar behaviors," Gail Garinger, the child advocate and a former juvenile court judge, concluded in a summary of her report, released yesterday after a six-month investigation. "However, DCF also missed opportunities to recognize the dangers to Acia and Sophia, and to intervene."
The girls died when a fire, which officials say was set in a jealous rage by their mother's lover, swept through the West Sixth Street row house where they lived. The children lived there with their mother, Anna Reisopoulos, even though state social workers had determined five years earlier that she and the girls' father, Raymond Johnson Sr., were unfit parents and gave custody to a grandmother.
Execute him. These are the kind of people we don't need around.
Social workers failed to sufficiently document incidences of neglect by the parents dating back to 1995, the investigation found, and the agency did not interview other people involved in the children's lives who could have shed light on the dangers they faced.
"This was really a systemic failure in this case," Garinger said in an interview yesterday....
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Social workers never realized the children were living at the South Boston house even though the workers repeatedly visited them there, and even though their mother reported they were living there when she applied for food stamps, cash assistance, and housing subsidies. The home was also listed at Acia Johnson's school as her primary residence.
The department would eventually document cocaine use, violent domestic fights, and bizarre incidents, including one in which Acia's father left the girl on the side of the road and led police on a car chase after a traffic stop.
In all, social workers investigated roughly a dozen complaints of abuse and neglect in as many years, including two in the months before the fire. Last February, Sophia Johnson was found wandering outside, alone, on a cold winter day.
Excuse me? A BABY was WANDERING AROUND OUTSIDE on a COLD WINTER DAY?!!!! Excuse me?
On March 14, just three weeks before the fire, Reisopoulos chased her son Raymond into the backyard with a hammer. Social workers, notified by police, were called to the scene but took no immediate action....
What, would he have had to bash the kids skull in to get a reaction?
You guys just picking up a check, aren't you?
So WHY the BRIEF in the BUSINESS SECTION, Globe?
Same as the SPOTLIGHT!
They TRULY DO SERVE OTHER INTERESTS despite SOME GOOD REPORTING -- otherwise, WTF?!!!!
