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>Every journalist I've met since the Internet came >about has been lamenting the fact that their hard work >is given away on the web. Since you seem to be one of >those folks who wants everything for free, I can >clearly deduce that you're not a journalist. > >Face facts...every publisher on the planet will >eventually close their doors if they can't figure out >how to get paid for the product they produce. I don't >begrudge the PG their attempt at making that model >work. Let's hope it makes a few bucks for them so we >can figure out how to do it ourselves, lest we wind up >greeting folks at the door of the local WalMart. > >>I pay seventy-five cents six days a week for an >>ever-thinning Post-Gazette, and now I am invited to >>pay an extra $3.99 each month for premium features >>otherwise not available on the Web site. I feel that >>the seventy-five cents I pay each weekday should >>entitle me to the very best that the P-G can offer. >>The newspaper is now tacitly admitting that it's >>withholding the very best of its contents from its >>core newsstand-copy-buying readers. I guess I am >>going to quit buying the paper and just browse the >>free online version. I've been loyal to the paper, >>but the paper has been loyal to neither its >>journalists nor its readers. I guess I've reached the >>point where I am no longer going to pay for the P-G.

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