http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002887866Archae (22,965 posts)
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Just great. Our local newspaper is *ONLY* available online to subscribers.
No access to the Sheboygan Press for non-subscribers.
BTW, it's Gannett-owned
No exposure to liberal media= less liberals.
I hope they all go broke and close down.
Still Sensible (1,853 posts)
1. Tulsa World allows you to see 10 stories
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per calendar month if you aren't a subscriber. I used to check the LATimes site daily, but hey went subscriber, too. Of course he New York Times has some hybrid subscriber model, but I haven't bothered to read their rules.
MineralMan (44,837 posts)
3. Well, that's a tough one.
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How's that newspaper doing financially? If it's like most, it's on the verge of going under. I subscribe to the paper version of my local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It's been shrinking steadily, and now, they've combined the front section with the local section 6 days a week. Ad sales are down, and they've cut their staff dramatically. I rarely go to their website, since I real the paper every morning and they don't update the website all that often between times.
It's a trend. If people don't subscribe to that online version, odds are it won't be around much longer in any useful form. In fact, the paper itself may fold up. That's why I subscribe. I'm hoping the paper doesn't go under, which could happen, despite its circulation of over 250,000.
It's a shame. The paper delivery person drops off my paper, but doesn't stop anywhere else on my block. A sad business.
I dropped my local paper when, by the constant complaining by Bruce Fealk, they dropped Ann Coulter's column.
It's been 7 years now.
TouchOfGray (7 posts)
4. I don't understand the nature of your complaint
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All of print media is in a death struggle to survive and are looking to find business models in order to do so.
I notice that you are a "star member", a donor, indicating that you are willing to pay for content that you deem important to you.
Perhaps if the Sheboygan Press is meaningful enough to your daily life it would be worth it to you to subscribe.
Island Blue (5,176 posts)
6. Are hard copies either by subscription or in stores, etc. free?
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Newspapers are business, and even though they don't generate the majority of their revenue from subscriptions, the don't usually give their product away for free.
I'd be willing to bet that island character puts in a couple quarters and takes 6 newspapers.
Nye Bevan (7,002 posts)
9. Whoa. How DARE the people who produce that newspaper expect to be paid for their work?
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What audacity.
But All Y'All think that it's OK to steal as many songs as you can download.
Irony is skin's island personified.
Nye Bevan (7,002 posts)
19. The problem is that lots of freeloaders use adblock software.
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Like this guy....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5254659&mesg_id=5254853
If people didn't do that, then your idea would be more likely to work.
I wanted to put a strikethrough through the "freeloaders" and put "DUmmies" in its place until I realized that It wouldn't change the meaning.
I don't know what to think of this one.
postulater (2,902 posts)
11. Appleton Post Crescent also.
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And also Gannett paper.
My mother is canceling her PC subscription so she can pay for the increase in her Medicare supplement premium.
And to top it off the premium increase is to the insurance company that my brother-in-law just got a huge bonus from. He's an exec attorney there.
a kennedy (5,689 posts)
14. Lotsa papers are doing that....
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Wisconsin State Journal, La Crosse Tribune, Winona's paper. First you get like 15 articles for free a month, then you have to pay if you want anymore during the month. So I just pick my articles very carefully and not go over my 15 for the month.
Cheap bastard.
Typical campfire of DUmmies being DUmmies.
