You know, eventually the day will come when there are no more MSM posts here and nothing but blogs will be posted. Not far away, either....
"Newsday to charge readers for access to its website" by Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times | October 23, 2009
Newsday will become one of a handful of American newspapers to charge readers for access online, starting later this month, the newspaper said yesterday....
People who subscribe to Cablevision or to Newsday in print.... would continue to have free, unrestricted access to the site.
What if you BUY IT off the RACK?
I guess I will START HAVING TO SAY NO, huh, Globe?
The paper, owned by Cablevision, plans to charge $5 a week, or about $260 a year, which is considerably more than digital subscriptions to the small number of other American papers that charge. The basic price for online access to The Wall Street Journal is $149 a year, and the paper frequently offers discounted subscriptions at lower prices.
They ought to be paying you for accepting their agenda-pushing s***.
Papers have been wrestling with erecting toll gates online, weighing projections for revenue gain against those for lost readership and digital advertising.
Yeah, there is going to be EVEN MORE LOST READERSHIP because I WILL STOP PURCHASING the PAPER and READING the WEB SITE -- and I AM the one SENDING PEOPLE THERE with my links!!!!!!
Oh, is that what they are going to call them?
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Yeah, like that one!
