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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:57 am
 


Title: Toronto Star next in line for Internet content paywall
Category: Business
Posted By: OnTheIce
Date: 2012-10-29 11:15:00
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:57 am
 


You mean I have to pay to read the lefty BS ?

hmmmmmm..

no thanks. :)


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Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity. :?


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:44 pm
 


i doubt I'd be willing to pay for the priveledge of Heather Mallick making my blood presure spike.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:55 pm
 


Don't care if the price was $0.01 a year, still wouldn't pay.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:11 pm
 


saturn_656 saturn_656:
Don't care if the price was $0.01 a year, still wouldn't pay.

I would not read it if they offered to pay me.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:35 pm
 


FieryVulpine FieryVulpine:
saturn_656 saturn_656:
Don't care if the price was $0.01 a year, still wouldn't pay.

I would not read it if they offered to pay me.


Likewise!


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1Peg 1Peg:
FieryVulpine FieryVulpine:
I would not read it if they offered to pay me.

Likewise!

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:18 pm
 


Lemmy Lemmy:
Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity. :?


Martin thought Benito Mussollini was a lefty. :lol:


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:19 pm
 


Never read it..........won't miss it either.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:50 pm
 


Not one of my "need to see" papers.

Actually I've only got one paper that I would really miss --- the National Post.

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The article says this...

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National Post owner Postmedia (TSX:PNC.A) (TSX:PNC.B), which also owns numerous city dailies, became the first major Canadian media organization to roll out its own paywall structure earlier this year, in an effort to help tighten its quarterly losses.


... but I haven't noticed anything restrictive so far.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:15 pm
 


I just deleted the Globe and Mail from my bookmarks. I guess the Star will be next. Too much free stuff on the net to pay for either newspaper. If they can't make money froms ads they will just go out of business. Their day is done.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:50 pm
 


Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Lemmy Lemmy:
Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity. :?


Martin thought Benito Mussollini was a lefty. :lol:


That's the way he started. He was the editor of one of their rags too....then, he found nationalism while fighting against the Germans and the Austrians.. Sort of the same evolutionary process as the the PQ...except for the fighting the Germans part.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:13 am
 


ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Lemmy Lemmy:
Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity. :?


Martin thought Benito Mussollini was a lefty. :lol:


That's the way he started. He was the editor of one of their rags too....then, he found nationalism while fighting against the Germans and the Austrians.. Sort of the same evolutionary process as the the PQ...except for the fighting the Germans part.



SHHHHHHH.. don't confuse Zippy with things like that.

He is too busy stalking my posts with very cheap and not very interesting shots. ;)


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:45 am
 


EyeBrock EyeBrock:
I just deleted the Globe and Mail from my bookmarks. I guess the Star will be next. Too much free stuff on the net to pay for either newspaper. If they can't make money froms ads they will just go out of business. Their day is done.

These dinosaurs write the news but apparently haven't heard the news; it's the Information Age, for Christ's sake. It's a perfectly competitive market and the price of information has been set by the market at $0. The newspapers can continue to concoct desperate schemes to try and extract fees from consumers, but once the market has valued their product at $0, there's not a hell of a lot they can do about it. They need to find other ways to generate revenue if they want to stay in business because technology and the freemarket has stripped away any competitive advantage that existed before the internet.

Newspapers are in exactly the same boat as the recording industry. Their product, thanks to technology, no longer has market value and there's nothing they can do to get Jack back in the box.


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