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HA…HA…HA
Gannett management better slow down puffing on their crack pipes.
Circulation down to about 10 people?
Online advertisers wising up and realizing they are getting ripped off?
The decision to require commenters to have a face book account destroy page view numbers?
Go ahead and try and collect from online readers.
I have never seen a company so intent on self-destruction.
Will we still have to deal with terribly annoying ad’s that often lock up browsers?
The pay wall works for the Tallahassee Democrat because they provide extensive coverage of the two universities in town – Florida State and Florida A&M. It gives them an extended readership of graduates and fans whose only access to that content is online. The AC-T doesn’t offer extensive coverage of anything – who do they expect will pay for that?
I concur. The online content is not worth reading for free. No way is it worth paying for.
I have to admit that this is the way of the future, but I don’t think it is wise to push a pay wall on such a small town. If you subscribe to the newspaper then the web content should be free. Just saying. That should be the business model. But in a town of this size I think it is counter productive to push your luck.
Well, that will be the death nell for the CT … Many folks do not pay for the published content (in newsprint), and while I currently read the online version daily, I will not pay a penny for content that is often littered with misspellings, grammatical errors and other errors.
Such as you may say: well, just toady there is a headline “SUB Crashes into home” … what is a/an SUB?
Agree that it’s unlikely that people will pay much, if anything, for the thin web content of the Citizen-Times. The website is often confusing. Hugely outdated information is kept active, so the reader is never sure if a link is for a recent headline or one from months ago.
The word is spelled “knell” not “nell.” Good thing we don’t pay for comments to be error-free either.