Philadelphia

[smeags]

NJ has farged up laws about guns, always has

Oh, that makes it okay then.  And why is some officer sticking his stick in cow mouths?  Chris Christie has a way to go in that messed up state.

whoa whoa, what ?

"A few weeks after Aitken's trial over the summer, Morley learned that Christie was not going to reappoint him, due in part to a 2009 case in which he dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a Moorestown cop accused of sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves. Morley said there was no way of knowing whether the calves had been "puzzled" or "tormented" by the officer's actions."

Cops are outta control.

fargs wrong with those jersey people ?

[Sgt PSN]

someone has to step up and do it first...ny times wouldnt be bad. everyone would follow their lead.

@ sarge--they cant cut down on the print edition quite yet. people 40+ still are willing to pay for their papers and still want them. the upper 60's most likely dont even know how to use a computer, so theyd be frozen out.

what you do is kind of stagger the costs. so for just regular internet stuff (like the site now) its 5 month/year/one time fee. for maybe 10 you get the site and print edition of the paper in digital form. for a regular subscription it all comes free.

again i find i hard to believe that people wouldnt pony up 5 a year or something to read their local sports site. then with the content paywalled you can release the hounds on blogs trying to piggyback off their content posting it for free. so really the only way people can find out indepth phillies stuff is to not be a cheap funhole and pay for content.

but i know this will never happen.   

This is seriously the most legitimate thing you've ever posted.  I'm proud of you. 

And I agree that you can't just kill the presses, especially because there is an older crowd of newspaper readers out there who who don't have a computer and/or don't know how to use it.  But it is time that they start scaling back their printing operations and transition towards going completely digital and charging for the info.  And I really think that they could make a killing with those partial subscriptions that I mentioned earlier.  How many times has someone said to you "Hey, you gotta read the article by so-and-so in today's paper."  But you don't want to buy the entire paper just to read 1 article.  So instead, you charge a smaller fee online to purchase an article or subscribe to a particular section or columnist.  I've never read an entire paper front to back and never will.  I'd say at most I've read 50% of a newspaper on any given day.  So selling individual articles is something that someone like me might find appealling.  It would also give me the flexibility of reading from multiple rags without paying full subscription prices to each company.   

[MDS]

i think the wall street journal does that or has done that...charging 1 or 2 bucks to read an article. but they almost exclusively cover an entire industry. it would be tough for sports sites to simply go to that.

but, its not a bad idea to simply tack it on to the overall payment thing...maybe going 5 a month for everything on the site then also offering .50 or 1 to just read an entire article. basically offering different kinds of flexible plans but overall, you know, actually charging money to read them.

god forbid they might make money of this and add additional staff or quit cutting back on positions. the thing hurt the most in all of this is desk positions. things are still getting covered its just the copy editing and design duties are getting shuffled to reporters and other editors. those guys are as important to the operation as the reporters (i.e. catching my dumbass spelling/grammar errors and making me look like less of a retard).

[Diomedes]

I subscribe to the Baltimore Sun print edition and read it probably every other day.

[QB Eagles]

The NYTimes already tried a subscription model for its columns (called TimesSelect) and it was an enormous failure. Not enough people signed up, web traffic (and online ad revenue) cratered, and the columnists bitched about their perceived loss of readership and influence.

But I'm sure people will pay for the Inquirer. <insert chuckle here>

[Diomedes]

My understanding is that the NYTimes plans to implement a plan that allows a certain number of free articles to a given user per week/month, above which a subscription is required.  One presumes the paying subscriber would have access to archives, etc as well.

[ice grillin you]

The NYTimes already tried a subscription model for its columns (called TimesSelect) and it was an enormous failure. Not enough people signed up, web traffic (and online ad revenue) cratered, and the columnists bitched about their perceived loss of readership and influence.

But I'm sure people will pay for the Inquirer. <insert chuckle here>

im going to sign up this week...if you dont live in philly theres no way else to get the full paper

[QB Eagles]

I think there is a possibility that the new Times model will work, at least to some extent. It seems like it will capture the people who are actually reading the paper online, rather than simply following a link from a blog or other website to read a story or two per day.

This, on the other hand, does not sound like something many people will be enticed to buy:

Warren said the site would remain free to users, but readers who would like to experience a newspaperlike read on the Internet could purchase "digital editions" of The Inquirer and the Daily News.

The digital editions cost $2.99 a week, but for the next two-weeks, a trial period, they are free.

[MDS]

baby steps, baby steps

by the time they figure it out there wont be anything left

[QB Eagles]

There's always gonna be news, and people reporting it. There's not always gonna be newspapers. We're still a technology or two away from the true death blow, though. Whatever it is will be better than papers anyway (except for packing glassware and lining birdcages), so who cares about 'em other than the people who work at 'em.

[MDS]

theres a lot us

you can wish me death i actually sort of agree but...good people would be farged

[ice grillin you]

its just a continuation of the dumbing down of america...it all started with usa today and will end up with everyone getting their news from blogs

[phillycrew]

theres a lot us

you can wish me death i actually sort of agree but...good people would be farged

I'm sure the buggy whip makers were good people too. 

[Sgt PSN]

its just a continuation of the dumbing down of america...it all started with usa today and will end up with everyone getting their news from blogs

That's the one thing that makes me want online newspapers to stay subscription free....a lot of people won't pay for legit news but theyll turn to blogs and such and take it for truth.

[BigEd76]

El Wingador ate 254 wings this morning.......and lost by 1

and Kobayashi showed up in a Flyers jersey and ate a cheesesteak in 24 seconds