Beginning Wednesday, most of Newsday.com content will only be available to subscribers of Optimum Online, Newsday, or those willing to pay for it.
Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper – both owned by Bethpage-based Systems Corp. – will have to pay a $5 weekly fee. However, nonpaying customers will have access to some of newsday.com’s information, including the home page, school closings, weather, obituaries, classified and entertainment listings. There also will be some limited access to Newsday stories.
Newsday described the move as one that would create a “pioneering Web model,” combining the newspaper’s newsgathering services with Cablevision’s electronic distribution capabilities.
This ridiculousness brought to you by the Dolan Group (owners of Cablevision),
the same people who own the NY Knicks and drove them into the ground.
Hey Dvorak! Why not have a phone book death watch too?
The forestry death watch will take acre of itself.
We stopped getting a paper almost 2 decades ago when we realized more were going into the recycle bin unread than we ever had time to look at. Most of the news is horribly biased anyhow, there’s nobody who just wants to tell you what happened anymore, they want to spin the news to match their particular political biases.
No thanks. I won’t take a paper newspaper and I won’t pay for one online. I can get the news for free from a variety of sources and I trust it a lot more than I’d ever trust a print rag.
Hopefully, they all go out of business. It would serve them right.
#6. Er… NO AGENDA?
We don’t need the old media when we have the new media. News operations such as the one that employs me are burned out, corrupt, and biased. They only tell you the things they want you to know. Adam and John cut through the BS. Really. Get over the old media, and get on board with the future.
The Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column, gang. The sooner we kill them off, the better. We need a rebirth of the “press”, and it will come at the other end of a keyboard.
I ‘might’ pay for some news content but they have to start reporting the NEWS and stop telling me how to think or how great their favorite politicians are. I will not pay for opinions or bias masquerading as news.
So. Cable/Internet users of cablevision systems will be subsidizing the Newspaper. Great!! Cable bills are going to see an increase to support this, because nobody wants to read what they have.
Peace
# 8 Dallas:
“Fox News and the DOD are offering up free free newpaper subscriptions. ”
Do tell! Department of Defense? How does one take advantage of this? Can I choose the paper(s)? Or does this apply only to free papers? I wouldn’t mind receiving the NY Times Science Tuesday edition…
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Will No Agenda tell you the scores of your local high school’s games last weekend, or which schools will have open house this week? Will No Agenda tell you about the dispute between the health insurance company and the hospital corporation leading 100,000 of your neighbors to have to pay out-of-network rates at six area hospitals (including the only children’s hospital within 100 miles)? Will No Agenda tell you when your local health department will get the H1N1 vaccine? (Oh, I forgot, no one here believes in vaccines or health departments…) Will No Agenda tell you how long the construction will last on the Interstate you drive every day to and from work? Will No Agenda tell you about the state of relations between your local firefighters’ union and the city/county government? Will No Agenda tell you about which sections of town are experiencing an alarming rise in burglaries or thefts from cars or vandalism? Will No Agenda tell you about the expected cost of natural gas/heating oil/gasoline in your area over the coming winter?
No.
These are all stories I found valuable in my local paper over the past few days/weeks/months. If the physical paper went away, I’d pay to get access to important local information if I had to. Maybe not $5/week, unless it was much MUCH better presented than any of the local paper or TV station web sites are now.
Isn’t Newsday headquartered on Long Island? Seems like the dozens and dozens of towns and millions of people thronging that spit of land might find that kind of information about their area worth paying something for.