The Globe Will Make You Pay For Online Content

I think that’s going to be a train wreck.

BIG MISTAKE… There are enough free sport information outlets to get info from. I’ll go back to buying a newspaper before I pay for content online!!

The globe isn’t worth it. I would rather read the NYT anyway.

This is in relation to Ruper Murdoch making his online content subscription based right?

I wouldn’t pay the Globe, Herald or any website for news. I like the Globe online sports section but not enough to pay for it. This is a bad idea that will fail.

Some people would consider it the beginning of the end.

I think it’s closer to the end of the end. : )

if the newspaper industry can’t figure out how to make money off what they produce, namely news content and opinion, newspapers will become extinct.

Do you want your local and state government to operate without local papers as watchdogs? Or do you trust the government to just put out information, which blogs can then digest? It costs money to send reporters to city hall, zoning meetings, state houses, etc.

Cragislist has cut out one leg of the newspaper industry – classified ads. This bad economy is threatening the other, display ads. Papers are cutting reporting and editing jobs like crazy. If I have to pay $20 a month on the internet to insure that my local statewide daily stays in business, I will do it.

To have a free society you need a free press— aand lots of it. The reporting on TV and on web-based media is almost uniformly shallow. Nothing provides in-depth investigative coverage like a good newspaper.

I get the Globe via home delivery and those prices have gone through the roof asa well: from $31 a month to $47 per month in less than a year. But I will continue to pay tht as well.

The 93% that say “No” contain some true hardliners, no doubt, but most WILL fall into paying a penny a click or an annual fee or whatever. I am to the right of virtually every writer the Globe publishes (and I’m not very right) except Jeff Jacoby so why would I care if it goes down. Answer, see Brickowski above, the Globe’s Spotlight Team is absolutely essential. Corrupt politicians, lazy firemen, greedy drug companies etc have all had their butts kicked in public and we can’t lose that or the future gets darker indeed.

I would never pay for online content or even the paper itself. If there’s a copy at the gym I might take a look. But I can find any information elsewhere. (like here) The opinion articles aren’t important. And politically, all they seem to do is tell us how great Obama is. So much for being a watchdog.