Information age has now become the paywall age

[justoffal]

You have to work very hard to avoid paywalls nowadays. We are bombarded by clickbait dragging us into a site that gives you one paragraph of interesting subject matter just before the paywall appears to interrupt your reading.

It's very annoying. It may actually revive the newspaper industry. I have long since abandoned my Sunday morning ritual of buying the Sunday Times and the Sunday Globe and then heading to a Sit-down Dunkin Doughnuts for a couple of hours of reading and caffeine.

Thinking about reviving that habit.

Jo

 

[Lisa558]

I’ve noticed the same thing.

Although I can understand why it’s happening: the print industry has dried up, and so the big names are operating in the red. Everyone switched to online, so they are now trying to generate revenues where they can.

I’m ready to start buying the print edition of the WSJ. Good articles, but now behind a paywall.

 

[pknopp]

Paying for the information is still paying for the information.

 

[justoffal]

Paying for the information is still paying for the information.

There's still a few places to go but they are getting scarce now.

 

[Dekster]

You have to work very hard to avoid paywalls nowadays. We are bombarded by clickbait dragging us into a site that gives you one paragraph of interesting subject matter just before the paywall appears to interrupt your reading.

It's very annoying. It may actually revive the newspaper industry. I have long since abandoned my Sunday morning ritual of buying the Sunday Times and the Sunday Globe and then heading to a Sit-down Dunkin Doughnuts for a couple of hours of reading and caffeine.

Thinking about reviving that habit.

Jo

Our local paper is $5.50 a copy, comes out once a week, and has to be mailed. When I was a wee one, it was like $5 a month and came out every day to your doorstep. I don't think that industry will be revived by paywalls. It also used to be super meaty a few days a week. The current one is like 10-14 pages. I miss the comics but not enough to pay that much for them a week.

 

[1srelluc]

Good point and with that in mind there should be a rule change here..,...An X link should be as good as one from the MSM.

When the movers and shakers have something to say now they do so on X rather than go through the media for their message to be distorted and bias commentary added.

 

[justoffal]

Good point and with that in mind there should be a rule change here..,...An X link should be as good as one from the MSM.

When the movers and shakers have something to say now they do so on X rather than go through the media for their message to be distorted and bias commentary added.

Yep....X does no censoring which is why there are millions of users on their who hate Trump and Musk all day every day. They actually have more content than the fans....

 

[Oddball]

You have to work very hard to avoid paywalls nowadays. We are bombarded by clickbait dragging us into a site that gives you one paragraph of interesting subject matter just before the paywall appears to interrupt your reading.

It's very annoying. It may actually revive the newspaper industry. I have long since abandoned my Sunday morning ritual of buying the Sunday Times and the Sunday Globe and then heading to a Sit-down Dunkin Doughnuts for a couple of hours of reading and caffeine.

Thinking about reviving that habit.

Jo

Paywall or demand that I turn off ad blockers....I pass on any Fox links because of this.

But the news gets around, if it's important enough.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

You have to work very hard to avoid paywalls nowadays. We are bombarded by clickbait dragging us into a site that gives you one paragraph of interesting subject matter just before the paywall appears to interrupt your reading.

It's very annoying. It may actually revive the newspaper industry. I have long since abandoned my Sunday morning ritual of buying the Sunday Times and the Sunday Globe and then heading to a Sit-down Dunkin Doughnuts for a couple of hours of reading and caffeine.

Thinking about reviving that habit.

Jo

It is very annoying. But, what are they to do?
They can't go through all the expenses of putting the content together - and no ability to make any money.

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

I remember the days when information wasn't paywalled. Putting up a paywall will make it harder to find information.

 

[justoffal]

I’ve noticed the same thing.

Although I can understand why it’s happening: the print industry has dried up, and so the big names are operating in the red. Everyone switched to online, so they are now trying to generate revenues where they can.

I’m ready to start buying the print edition of the WSJ. Good articles, but now behind a paywall.

Yeah WSJ has always been high quality

 

[Missourian]

You have to work very hard to avoid paywalls nowadays. We are bombarded by clickbait dragging us into a site that gives you one paragraph of interesting subject matter just before the paywall appears to interrupt your reading.

It's very annoying. It may actually revive the newspaper industry. I have long since abandoned my Sunday morning ritual of buying the Sunday Times and the Sunday Globe and then heading to a Sit-down Dunkin Doughnuts for a couple of hours of reading and caffeine.

Thinking about reviving that habit.

Jo

I'm not giving Legacy Media one thin dime.

How to easily get behind a paywall and add archived links.

This doesn't work all the time...but it works a lot of the time. It also allows you to post archived links so as not to contribute to left (or right) leaning websites click count. This is the Bloomberg link we're going to archive... Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Insert after the double...

www.usmessageboard.com

But I am considering becoming a paid X subscriber before Dec 2nd for $5.75 a month (if paid annually) as part of their Black Friday deal.