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>You must be a journalist, because you can't, or don't >want to, paraphrase accurately. I did not say I did >not want to pay for the news. I've been paying for >newsstand copies of the P-G for decades. What has >persuaded me to NOT pay any longer is the P-G's >decision to rip off print-version buyers by offering >premium features only at at extra cost. Seventy-five >cents is an unreasonable price for a paper that has >fewer features and fewer columnists than it did when >the daily newsstand price was twenty-five cents lower. > Your defense of the new policy is disingenuous at >best and fatuous at worst. No wonder your paper is in >its death throes. (I do realize that the description >of the premium features makes them sound obviously >lame and frivolous, so there probably won't be much of >a demand for them; maybe the P-G should have chosen a >better adjective than "premium"--but precision in word >choice is something that P-G readers no longer expect >even on the editorial page. The paper is now so >anorexic and slapdash that it has begun to resemble a >small-town paper.)

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