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Google ‘newspaper’ in their search News section for story after story of the death of this mode of communication. And, Rupert Murdoch is going to start charging to read the online version of another of his newspapers just like he promised. That should work, right?
I would pay $39.95/month for an online subscription to 200 magazines and newspapers of my choice. This would also include all the publications’ archives. I wouldn’t mind the advertising.
However, all these publications need to change their format to accommodate the dimensions and shape of the computer screen upon which they are being read.
I buy the paper for the coupons. They are worth the cost in savings. I read the news online though.
Your poll software is so web 1.0
I wouldnt pay for news, but i would and do pay for opinion and digest.
#3 It seems to me like the only real subscribers to newspaper services are those who would rather not read on a screen. I can’t see an online model working, for those in the online-know, there’s already a ton of sources out there.
-This. I don’t like to read extensively on a screen. If I wanted to, I could find it free.
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#4 If necessary I can get my news from television
-OMG, nooooooo.
I think that if we want to stay informed, we have to pay for news.
Whether we watch it on TV, listen to radio, or buy a print copy, they are highly subsidized by advertising.
The people who gather and write the news are entitled to make a living too.
not on your life. way too many free sites and other ways to get the news.
Newspapers suck! They print old shit I read online 3 days before.
I get the Sunday NYTimes, which also allows the advert-less Times Reader to display the daily newspaper in a larger-type, clutter-free fashion.
News will always be free. as soon as papers and media companies start charging for web access, a market will be created for free news which will attract websites that will make big bucks selling advertising based on the huge numbers of visitors looking for “free” news sites.
Nothing is truly free…a return to partisan press is both inevitable and a refreshing breath of fresh air…the fiction of an unbiased media, impossible to maintain now that a radical community organizer remained vetted…while Joe the plumber and Palin were descended upon by the “unbiased” press…and ad hominem employed to destroy them.
Obama is going to shut down all private media anyway and just have a federally funded state media. wait a minute, isnt that what PBS and NPR is?
I’d support a “micro payment” for each news item approved for payment and clicked on. Only a few cents.
Just like DvD’s==I don’t want the crapfest, just the one good tune.
That said, I’ve never read newspapers==just magazines. It is rare indeed that NEWSPAPERS actually go in depth. For a truly analytic piece, you need a magazine. Later, a book.
I do believe newspapers provide a necessary safeguard against the excesses of government. Once again, we have MISALIGNED mechanisms.
Newspapers to reveal the corruption, magazines and books to best understand what really happened.
Yes. I payed for the NY Times before and I’ll do it again. Best reporting, period.
I pay for wsj.com access…
We take our local paper seven days a week. Reading the paper is part of how I wake up in the morning. Even though it was bought by Gannett a few years ago, it is still engaged in the community and the state. (And no, there is not a single clock blinking 12:00 in the place.) It’s a single source for lots of the local news I’m interested in (I’d hate to have to find 132 reliable websites to source all the different areas I follow), and they have a couple of good local columnists that give deep insight into the soul of the community. And as madtruckman and Don Quixote pointed out, the coupons really do come in handy.
I occasionally peruse the paper’s website, but like most commercial media sites, it’s extremely overcrowded, clunky, chaotic and hard to use, but not as bad as any TV station’s site. (The TV networks sites are the worst. CBS.com used to crash my browser every time I tried to access it. Still does about once in four visits.)
If the local paper version went away, I’d probably pay a subscription if I could get most of the same stuff online. Possibly even the same amount we pay now.
So, yes and yes.
Why is this poll Back or White? What about the gray “Maybe”? I might pay for content if it was worth something to me. Polls shouldn’t have only two options. Most polls include an “Other”.