Quote Originally Posted by Zads07 View Post
I want to know what it would take for readers to pay for content.
I don't consider that I've ever paid for the news content. I consider news to be a public service, supported by advertisers. I paid for the convenience of home delivery. Remember, everything in a printed newspaper happened yesterday. At least with TV news, I could find out about things that happened today, then read about them in more detail tomorrow.

But notice, I said 'more detail'. That was when there were real reporters who went to incident scenes and gathered information first hand by talking to witnesses and officials. If you read three different papers [[which there were back then), you got details in three different ways because the reporters wrote their own stories. They didn't copy and paste off a link they clicked.

Today, I can hit five or more different 'news' websites and read exactly the same story, word for word, mistake for mistake.


I will NEVER pay for content on any website. I will never subscribe to any site that throws up a paywall.