Are You Paying For Access To News Sites?

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

All of a sudden, many news sites are requiring payment for reading articles. I can't help but wonder how this is going over. So far, I haven't signed up for any but I may.

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

@Noel7, There are several sites where I am asked to give a donation, which I do sometimes.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@tansywrote:
@Noel7, There are several sites where I am asked to give a donation, which I do sometimes.

Hi @tansy

I've given a donation before but the new thing is you are not allowed to read a full article, or any on some, without signing up to pay.

Example: The Washington Post and Daily News. You get a couple of free articles a month but after that you have to sign up and pay.

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

No and then there are sites that want all your information before they will let you read the rest of the story.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

Not so far, and I like to look at more than one slant, so I don't have any idea who I would pick

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@CelticCrafterwrote:
No and then there are sites that want all your information before they will let you read the rest of the story.

Yes, I've seen that @CelticCrafter I don't register with them, either.

FrostyBabe1 · ‎05-09-2016

There's a few sites that I visit that limit free articles to 10 per month, and then they want you to pay for a subscription, but that's easy enough to get around by just clearing the cache. Some, like the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have been subscription only for as long as I can remember. I've not encountered any that were previously free that are now requiring subscriptions.

~The more someone needs to brag about how wonderful, special, successful, wealthy or important they are, the greater the likelihood that it isn't true. ~

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

@Noel7wrote:
@tansywrote:
@Noel7, There are several sites where I am asked to give a donation, which I do sometimes.

Hi @tansy

I've given a donation before but the new thing is you are not allowed to read a full article, or any on some, without signing up to pay.

Example: The Washington Post and Daily News. You get a couple of free articles a month but after that you have to sign up and pay.

The Seattle Times is like that now. I’m allowed to read 10 free articles every month but now they’ve made it so that I have to take my ad blocker off in order to read those articles:/

Unfortunately, while I would like to support that newspaper, it is pretty expensive for online access.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@cherrywrote:
Not so far, and I like to look at more than one slant, so I don't have any idea who I would pick

Me, too @cherry

I read a lot of the articles on Fox this morning, looked at my Google home page news, then others. I was shut out of several unless I wanted to sign up and pay.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

I use google news ,as sort of a clearing house. I think they might be doing this because newspapers are falling by the wayside, and this is a chance to pick up more revenue