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Thread Author: No FM2R Replies: 23

 Newspaper pay walls. - No FM2R
How many people here read newspapers and other new sites that are behind pay walls?

Pure curiosity, no more. However, I am constantly surprised by the sudden and marked increase in thoughtfulness and competence in journalism once one steps out of teh add driven, sensationalist market.

Obvious I suppose.
 Newspaper pay walls. - R.P.
I contribute to the Guardian, despite not being behind a pay-wall. I occasionally dip into the Mail - it hates me because I won't dis-engage my ad-blocker. Local newspaper - Daily Post is full of very strange adverts but it's full of local news which is what I want !
 Newspaper pay walls. - John Boy
>> I contribute to the Guardian, despite not being behind a pay-wall. I occasionally dip into
>> the Mail - it hates me because I won't dis-engage my ad-blocker.

+1
 Newspaper pay walls. - Bromptonaut
I'm a third generation Guardian reader and happily contribute every month. It was £2+ a day for the paper edition when I commuted so £25/month is no big sacrifice for quality journalism

Also pay for The New Yorker and, for a year the New Statesman.

Happy to take what views the Times or Telegraph offer free but beggared if I'm subscribing to either, whatever the 'quality' of journalism, under their present owners.
 Newspaper pay walls. - No FM2R
Colour me surprised that you think the Guardian is "quality journalism" yet the Times or Telegraph have " 'quality' journalism".

Almost like their political alignment was different.

You know about confirmation bias, do you?
 Newspaper pay walls. - Biggles
Blinkered journalism is not quality journalism. At the moment I am enjoying reading politico.eu but not as a paid-up subscriber yet. With the Mail, if you filter out the dross you will note that the news articles are almost verbatim the same as the Telegraph ones and if you use the search function you can read the original agency articles.
 Newspaper pay walls. - sooty123
I took out a trial with the spectator, which was good if tilted one way.But still interesting.

Don't pay for any subscriptions or any other trials.
 Newspaper pay walls. - Falkirk Bairn
Apple news+ is £10- I read Times, +magazines - quite a few motor magazines and others in the family read their interests
DT - £6 paying a year in advance
Tried many others but gave up after offer expires - £10 a month the actual paper maybe OK but the web version poor
 Newspaper pay walls. - R.P.
I get motor magazines online from the Library. Costs nothing
 Newspaper pay walls. - No FM2R
Times, Telegraph, FT & Economist for me.
 Newspaper pay walls. - helicopter
I subscribe to the Telegraph online . I used to get it delivered but the Lockdown put paid to that.
 Newspaper pay walls. - Stuartli
"I subscribe to the Telegraph online . I used to get it delivered but the Lockdown put paid to that."

Most newspapers offered a free delivery service for at least six weeks for much of the pandemic lockdown....
 Newspaper pay walls. - helicopter
Just to clarify, before the first lockdown , I decided at short notice that I would be locking down with my lady friend who lives 35 miles from me as we were both on our own. I also had problems with unreliable delivery service by my paper shop.
Changed subscription to online as a result. I now would not change back.
 Newspaper pay walls. - Robin O'Reliant
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>> Most newspapers offered a free delivery service for at least six weeks for much of
>> the pandemic lockdown....
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How did that work, then?

It is the shops who provide the delivery and unless their paperboys and girls were prepared to work for nothing for six weeks none did "Free delivery". We certainly didn't provide that service and I have yet to hear of one that did, the papers returning a deafening silence when asked about funding the service.
 Newspaper pay walls. - neiltoo
In my case, I responded to a DT advert offering the delivery deal. It diverted to a company in Stoke, who I pay for delivery of the DT, the Sunday times, and some weekly magazines. I pay on line, and with my DT subscription tokens. The deliveries are made locally by, I assume, a local newsagent. I don't know who this is, since I never meet the guy - he arrives before I arise in the morning.
Except for the XR disruption, he hasn't missed a day.

I pay £3.50 per week for delivery.
Last edited by: neiltoo on Tue 25 May 21 at 14:32
 Newspaper pay walls. - Stuartli
>>How did that work, then?>>

As I don't have papers delivered these days - I use the on-line facilities - I don't know, but the facility was very extensively advertised by most of the main UK newspapers. It would be pointless doing so unless taken up and, one presumes, prove an asset for newsagents.
 Newspaper pay walls. - No FM2R
Having a decent newspaper delivered is a real, first world, joy that one should value.

Try living my life where it's not possible.

I cannot imagine the position where the cost of delivery would be the gating factor between doing it or not. No more than it was with milk.

And yes, I have spent such money even in impoverished times.
 Newspaper pay walls. - Stuartli
>>Having a decent newspaper delivered is a real, first world, joy that one should value.>>

Having spent four decades in the media world, I agree wholeheartedly. However, when my wife passed away, I had no real need to have newspapers delivered regularly - puzzles etc are not my scene...

Also on-line is instantaneous news, just as with the rolling TV news channels such as the BBC, Sky and, at one time, ITV and Channel4.
Last edited by: Stuartli on Wed 26 May 21 at 23:18
 Newspaper pay walls. - Dave_
I've had The Sunday Times since my college days. I subscribe to it now because it saves 33% on the cover price and gets me access to the Times app all week.

I did come across an easy method to bypass the paywalls on the DT site etc the other day. It was in the B3ta newsletter, if anyone cares to look for it.
 Newspaper pay walls. - zippy
Work pays for my access to the DT but only on their laptop - it will not work on any other device.

I also read the Guardian.
 Newspaper pay walls. - Mapmaker
I have the Telegraph on my phone. It's not as good as a real paper - takes much longer to scan an article. But it's always with me; I can read it before going to bed; I never have to pick it up.

I wouldn't dream of giving money to the Guardian owing to the quality of the so-called journalism, though I do occasionally read its articles. ;)
 Newspaper pay walls. - henry k
>> I wouldn't dream of giving money to the Guardian
>>owing to the quality of the so-called journalism, though I do occasionally read its articles. ;)
>>
Out of curiosity I sometimes used to pick up a free one in Waitrose so I quess I was giving them funds. Certainly never pay directly.
 Newspaper pay walls. - Bobby
Tend not to "read" newspapers at all online and must be years, if not more than a decade, since I last physically handed over money for an actual paper.

I use Twitter a lot and do click on newspaper articles if the subject gets my attention but tend to get most of my news from actual tweets as opposed to click throughs. I have long realised the importance of clickbait to the newspaper industry. Most papers have their own political slants and therefore adapt their own version of the story which becomes very tiring when you read an article and you are wondering if any of it is actually true.

Used to trust the BBC but less so now.

I actually get quite disgruntled the fact that good old "honesty" seems to have gone totally out the window with our politicians and press. There is very little integrity left. Politicians can now blatantly lie and the press won't pursue it because the owner of the Title pretty much controls the politicians. They will, of course, pursue someone from the opposite party though.

My sister's mother in law gets the Daily Mail delivered every day. Her and her husband were staunch Labour Socialists until he passed away some years ago. She started getting the DM as she likes the crossword. She lives on her own and gets it delivered every day.

She is now a full on Tory, Brexiteer with racist tendencies and her son 100% puts the blame of that onto her reading The Daily Mail. He has tried discussing specific issues / stories with her and she will only take the DM's version of it.

Scary, but I bet she is not alone in being brainwashed , over a period of time, by the newspaper she reads.
 Newspaper pay walls. - No FM2R
Many years ago my Grandmother was exactly like that over The Sun.

If it was in The Sun it was a fact. Conversely if it wasn't, then it wasn't.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Wed 2 Jun 21 at 23:07
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