Not willing to pay for the news? Deadbeats.

campbell29 said:

max_weisenfeld said:

campbell29 said:

Paying for news is a rather outdated concept.  I am a bit of a dinosaur in that I actually pay for the NY Times to deliver a physical newspaper to my house, at  pretty steep cost.  I realize that in 10 years I probably wont have the option of a newspaper.




I can go to multiple choices online for local, state, and national news...either via tv or internet.   I dont think most people would be willing to subscribe and pay for news.  Its all covered via free, and for local news there are many community boards and facebook groups.  There is nothing that a paid local paper or website can tell me that I cant find out elsewhere for free

I disagree.  I pay for the quality of what I read.  You want free news, you get free news quality.

I don't see a decrease in quality between what I get for free vs what I pay for. I dont even know how to judge the quality of information.  What I read in my paid media (newspaper) I already know about via TV, internet, social media.  When I pay for a subscription to NYTimes, its not so I can find out what happened yesterday, its to find out about stuff that  isnt covered like book reviews, arts, business stories.

anything happening in real time I already know about, and can even choose which sort of bias I prefer.  Micro local news always pops up either here or on facebook, and while I understand Village Green, News Record want to make money, I dont think at this point, since info is so available there is a way to monetize it other than through ad revenue.  Simply put, what information can you get only by paying, that you cant find for free elsewhere?

BTW, you pay for TV and you pay for the Internet.  Nothing is free.   

grocerylist said:

Promised myself I wouldn't engage and this will be my last reply in this dumpster fire of a thread. I clicked on a link on MOL to some endearing comments about a deceased friend of mine (which wasn't journalism but copy/pasted from Facebook). I happily pay the New York Times for access to their content, but even they have the common decency to make the obituaries free. Have some class.

There is only one classless person on this thread.

grocerylist said:

Dave and/or Jaime:

If you ever decide to create an automated filter blocking URLs of your choosing, like links to Joe Strupp or paywalled mommyblogger content marketers, but lack the technical chops or finances for a contract developer, let me know. I can send you three or four of my developers gratis. Should be trivial to implement, maybe an hour or two but you can have them for a couple days if needed.

Remember, it's a death of a thousand paper cuts. Every new local news site needs your referral traffic to gain audience traction, enough SOMA Lounges and MOL is kaput. At the very least, don't hasten your own demise.

Classless^

And leave your "mommyblogger" hate somewhere else.