24 August 2009 · Australian media
Here’s my thinking about news “paywalls”
Pick any mainstream news brand site – News.com.au or TheAge.com.au – and take a look at the front page. Now, tell me – if you had to pay to read each of those articles, how many of them are SO RELEVANT to your life that would you pay to read them right now?
Here’s my quick analysis for today’s sites (click to zoom):
I’d click the one about the weather 🙂
Really? You wouldn’t just go to the BoM site?
I suspect that Fairfax and Newscorp are going to find out very quickly that they’re not valued very highly if at all.
Damn it – work cut off my twitter access! I was going to send you a link
This One —> http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/08/25/the-coming-media-bailout/