Thursday, August 20, 2009

Rumor: You're Going to Pay to Read JSOnline

It's been a long, long time since I've paid for a newspaper subscription, for good reason: I can read the damn thing FREE on the Intertubulars.

Yah, there are some cheesy pop-down Milwaukee Brewer ads, and the site-design resembles a junkyard with neatly-painted trash.

Regardless, it is free-to-read.

And I have repeatedly told a JS staffer that their "free-stuff" policy is absolutely stupid.

An acquaintance of mine who is knowledgeable told me recently that "free-to-read" is likely to stop, very soon, at the Milwaukee JS.

Dammit.

5 comments:

  1. I saw somewhere that it's going to be something like $9.50 per month for the online subscription.

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  2. I will not pay to read the JSOnline or any other paper for that matter.

    I laugh at the people who will cough up that money and then are STILL bombarded by ads and horrible journalism.

    (For the record, I use Mozilla FF with Ad Block Plus and I haven't seen an ad in months. Love it.)

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  3. No one will pay to read AP Headlines (about all they can offer with most of their good reporters gone), or about Elizabeth Brenner getting another bonus.

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  4. "And I have repeatedly told a JS staffer that their "free-stuff" policy is absolutely stupid"
    Thanks Dad, now we know who to blame.

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  5. Their "Free Stuff" policy bringing in ad revenue is a lot better than a "Not Free Stuff" policy bring in zero. They do not break stories, talk radio and bloggers do that. They do not do investigative journalism more than once a year (if that). The only reason I used to go to JSOnline was their top stories list but even that is worthless now when I can read of a Governor not running for reelection hours before the JS picks it up.

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