Pay wall blues

[justoffal]

Can't click on anything any more. Up pops the subscription blank with the hands out.

Does anyone have a go to news site?

Don't get me wrong...it's not so much the pay it's the subscription I don't want.

Back to news papers!

 

[Concerned American]

Back to news papers!

If only, eh? I have had a fondness for reading the morning paper most of my life.

 

[Southern Dad]

Having worked in senior management with newspaper companies, the newspapers made a big mistake when they started posting their content online for free. When newspapers started websites, the revenue model of a newspaper was paid for by advertising. Everything from ROP, inserts, legal, and line ads. The subscription price didn’t even cover printing and distribution.

When the web came along, the editorial side wanted as many eyes on stories as possible. The advertising side felt they could sell ads all around the stories. The circulation side screamed to the high heavens it’s going to be hard to sell what you give away for free.

End result? Print newspapers are fading away and newspapers are adopting paywalls. One thing that I always disagreed with is advertising a story on social media, linking it, then paywalling it. If you tease it, you should give at least the first three graphs for free.

 

[MisterBeale]

Can't click on anything any more. Up pops the subscription blank with the hands out.

Does anyone have a go to news site?

Don't get me wrong...it's not so much the pay it's the subscription I don't want.

Back to news papers!

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

Apr 12, 2024

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 backslash "archive.is/"

That link will take you to a page like this...

Click the link and it will take you to an Archive Today archived page with full text and no paywall...

And provide a link to the achived page...

https://archive.is/6c74f

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[shockedcanadian]

Having worked in senior management with newspaper companies, the newspapers made a big mistake when they started posting their content online for free. When newspapers started websites, the revenue model of a newspaper was paid for by advertising. Everything from ROP, inserts, legal, and line ads. The subscription price didn’t even cover printing and distribution.

When the web came along, the editorial side wanted as many eyes on stories as possible. The advertising side felt they could sell ads all around the stories. The circulation side screamed to the high heavens it’s going to be hard to sell what you give away for free.

End result? Print newspapers are fading away and newspapers are adopting paywalls. One thing that I always disagreed with is advertising a story on social media, linking it, then paywalling it. If you tease it, you should give at least the first three graphs for free.

Traditional newspapers were doomed the moment the internet and HTML became synonymous with life on earth. Remember buying the next technology called CDs? How about renting DVD movies? Remember using a typewriter to write up a resume?

With all due respect, there is not much of a model left for news than big sponsors and hence, they will formulate the news for us.

The further away the model is from the end user and stakeholder, the worse it becomes. Out with the old, in with the new.

This is why it is so critical that citizens defend social media and freedom. As imperfect as it is, as diabolical and absurd the mud pit has become, it is the last bastion of citizens media. Indeed, imperfect, but the best we have.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Can't click on anything any more. Up pops the subscription blank with the hands out.

Does anyone have a go to news site?

Don't get me wrong...it's not so much the pay it's the subscription I don't want.

Back to news papers!

I don’t trust any media company enough to pay for a subscription to their site.

The moment there is a TRULY unbiased news site, then I will subscribe, until then, I’m not paying to be agenda-ized