mr. furley
Footballguy
my efforts to keep up with the local news have been stymied by the newspaper website's paywall.
i'd like to read a couple sports articles and a couple local interest articles a day ( @Henry Ford ) but don't want to pay their asking price. largely because the other articles included in the paper are basically summary of much longer, more detailed and better written articles that i can get elsewhere. essentially they take the USA Today summary of a story, summarize that and then edit it down to a couple vague paragraphs that aren't of much use.
therefore i do not subscribe to the local paper. i did for years but the number & quality of the articles have declined precipitously along with a significant increase in the amount of ads.
yes, i understand that subscription numbers decreasing means decreasing newspaper quality. yes, i understand that this isn't much different than the move from wax, to cassette, to cd, to digital excepting for the relative content quality not decreasing as has happened with newspapers.
i'd like to read a couple sports articles and a couple local interest articles a day ( @Henry Ford ) but don't want to pay their asking price. largely because the other articles included in the paper are basically summary of much longer, more detailed and better written articles that i can get elsewhere. essentially they take the USA Today summary of a story, summarize that and then edit it down to a couple vague paragraphs that aren't of much use.
therefore i do not subscribe to the local paper. i did for years but the number & quality of the articles have declined precipitously along with a significant increase in the amount of ads.
yes, i understand that subscription numbers decreasing means decreasing newspaper quality. yes, i understand that this isn't much different than the move from wax, to cassette, to cd, to digital excepting for the relative content quality not decreasing as has happened with newspapers.