Posted on 08/17/2018 8:01:29 AM PDT by caww
The New York Times was one of the large papers involved in the effort, and it made an explicit request at the end of its piece for people to subscribe to local papers, many of which have struggled to survive in the digital age.
"If you haven’t already, please subscribe to your local papers," the Times wrote.
The Boston Globe, which spearheaded the effort, ran an op-ed that couldn't be read without a subscription. Clicking on the link to the paper's op-ed led to a page that said people can continue reading by "subscribing to Globe.com for just 99¢."
The Chicago Sun Times didn't make a specific request, but asked people to subscribe for one month...."Try one month for $1!," the link said.
The Arizona Daily Star's op-ed was followed by a link allowing people to sign up for just 99 cents a week.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
And how is that working for them?
[And how is that working for them?]
Considering the number of emails I get from my local newspapers practically GIVING AWAY subscriptions, my guess is not very well.
IIRC Trump’s election boosted the NYT subscription list by some quarter million
With money to be made, small wonder they all jumped on the bandwagon.
To the radical far left extremists it may be a good come on for them. To people with a brain, not so much.
This sort of thing used to work really well. I remember back in 1970 as a photographer for my school newspaper, discussing an op ed with the editor that he wrote. I knew that it was not really what he believed. He said, my goal is not to say what I believe. My goal is to get people to read it and have a strong emotional response.
Or something like that.
It enlightened my perspective on “non-news” information in all publications and TV/Radio from that day forward.
But today, we are in a cold Civil War. People respond by cancelling subscriptions.
What’s a newspaper?
They are relegated to the past with buggy whips and comet pills.
>>IIRC Trump’s election boosted the NYT subscription list by some quarter million
With money to be made, small wonder they all jumped on the bandwagon.<<
I guess it is like drain cleaner. If a little is good a LOT must be GREAT!
Well worth the $$$, we cant expect to read/hear libs complaining about Trump for free can we?
Talk about a fool’s errand. Trying to talk down Trump, when he goes right around the media and talks to the people (the whole purpose of his frequent rallies), shows their cognitive dissonance, and that they are now out of sync with a growing proportion of the public.
Sure, Donald J. Trump is crude and rude, and sometimes a little lewd, but he is also shrewd, and that manages to make him look like a REAL person, which counts for a lot when matched up against the cardboard caricatures of him painted by the media, who are not only tone deaf, they have also a poor eye in describing details.
For two years, the N.Y. Times has offered me each month a 50 percent off deal. They could make 99 percent off and it would not matter.
The dead tree newspapers are dying in the digital age.
I’d like to read some stats about how the papers are doing with their pay-for digital versions.
The Aiken Standard, the local Aiken County, South Carolina, liberal rag had an editorial yesterday in support of this. But reading it you’d never know that. Didn’t even mention President Trump’s name.
If the Blue Wave is a coming in Nov why would they do such a stupid thing now ,Money ?
Elevator operators.
Street cars.
AMC
New Diet Coke
Newspapers
gee whiz ... and i always thought the term media whores was just a metaphor </s>
I heard an ad on a local radio station last night...for a “Daily Podcast” from the NY TIMES! Yes, just what I need/SARC.
Our local paper called the other day and the person insisted that the Editorial Board had moderated their perspective since I cancelled my subscription. So I checked this morning and sure enough they had an editorial participating in this anti-Trump conspiracy. No thanks! I hope they are all unemployed sometime before Christmas.
Well they can’t compete with msm and social media with just local news. Sensationalism and scandal is what ‘sells’ today....real or created.
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