I’ll take the Newport Daily News in the next death pool.

This is pure extortion. “And for an extra $100, we’ll refrain from throwing trash in your yard every morning.”

Oh, just saw this in the PaidContent.org article:

It’s as if, having used all of its bullets in the battle to preserve print revenue, Newport has now decided to throw its gun at the problem.

Maybe they remembered the old TV series: although the bullets bounced off Superman, he always ducked when they threw the gun.

Jamie’s right.  It might even work.  I wish the local paper to which I am not a subscriber but which, regardless, is dumped daily somewhere vaguely in my yard for free gave me a similar option.

I wouldn’t pay $100 a year, but the number is surely (and possibly meaningfully) non-zero.

I like this business model.  If I still wrote a blog, I’d offer it thusly:

Give me $50 if you’d like to read the print outs of the blog.  Give me $100 if you’d like to read the printouts, and read the blog online.  Give me $150 to just read the blog. Thanks!

Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to offer a subscription that they called ‘The Subscription.’ They would select a victim and then threaten to send him a newspaper if he paid the so-called subscription money.  Four months later they started another subscription which they called ‘The Other Subscription.’  In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to send him a newspaper if he didn’t pay them.  One month later they hit upon ‘The Other Other Subscription’.  In this the victim was threatened that if he didn’t pay them enough, they would send him a newspaper.  This for the Newport Daily News was the turning point.

$245 a year for a local newspaper?  People would actually pay for this?  All you have to do is subscribe to local people via Twitter and you’ll get all the news and juicy background way before any newspaper can come out with the boiled down white bread version of it. 

Case in point, one local at a bar tweeted about cops finding a body in a nearby alleyway one night.  Paper had it TWO days later.

Splitter.

For a whole day.  I was wondering when someone would throw me a bone, there.

All you have to do is subscribe to local people via Twitter and you’ll get all the news and juicy background way before any newspaper can come out with the boiled down white bread version of it.

Really? Try looking at the tweets from the DC Metro Crash over the first half-hour or so. It’ll “sound” familiar to this.