11-09-2020, 02:59 PM
(11-06-2020, 06:50 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(11-06-2020, 06:32 PM)ac3r Wrote: The Record is garbage, I would never pay them. Local journalism is great, but The Record is awful. They barely do any worthwhile journalism, a lot of the paper is just crap that Metroland Media/Torstar pushes out to all their subsidiary papers or generic press releases they pretend are articles. The greedy paywall is a complete turn off as well, there are better ways to provide good journalism without both preventing potential readers from reading anything, but also begging them for money at the same time.
Whether you like the record or not, we MUST find a different business model for journalism...the current system is seriously broken, and I don't think paywalls, or guilt tripping, or anything like that is going to fix it.
Paywalls can work, at least for some newspapers. NYT has over 6M online subscribers. No, it's not the same as the Record.
But, ac3r, if you really hate the Record's content anyway, the paywall should be a non-issue for you as there is nothing there for you to look at.
I am somewhat mystified that the mobile app does not require a subscription. Is it intentional, or have they just not got it implemented yet?