Not for me to say. I can only say I won’t be paying it.Should they do it for free?
Well you did literally say they ‘can get in the sea’.Not for me to say. I can only say I won’t be paying it.
Yes, but the articles behind the E&S paywall articles will, in the main, be written by the same “shite” journalists we’ve been putting up with for free, I assume.Well you did literally say they ‘can get in the sea’.
We moan endlessly about the quality of local journalism but that’s cos they have no money so standards are shite. If we want local journalism, or indeed any content, we have to accept it needs to be paid for somehow*
*unless you are an Ursidae admin obvs
The Athletic loses a fortune, its why they had to sell up to the NYTPretty sure there's a decent body of evidence that voluntary ad-free tiers (such as The Guardian) or low-cost models (The Athletic for 95%+ of their subscribers who will all be on deals at <£2/month) work better than out-and-out paywalls.
And they need to push it as "83p a week/12p a day" and compare that to the physical cover price or whatever if they want it to work, not £43 a year.
But essentially their content isn't of the quality to be worth anything. The writing isn't good enough bar Johnny Phillips and Paul Berry and they don't break news.
There's also the underlying entitlement of people these days that everything should be free ever which grates but what can you do.
Yeah, The Guardian is loss-making too.The Athletic loses a fortune, its why they had to sell up to the NYT