Yesterday’s Star-Advertiser demonstrated the complexity of today’s news environment, where readers face varying demands for payment, from strict pay walls to strictly free.
The Star-Advertiser’s lead business story yesterday was about film industry tax breaks, with a subhead targeting Hawaii officials. You had to be a subscriber in order to access the whole story.
The story carried the byline of Will Wilson, Stateline.org.
But, as a sharp-eyed reader noted, the story was already 3 days old and available free from its original source. Stateline.org.
And on Friday, the day before the story appeared behind the Star-Advertiser pay wall, Pacific Business News ran a story about Stateline.org article, including a link to the original source. Available for free. No pay wall.
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Maybe we should have a sort of contest for a new appropriate nickname for the papa now…
How ’bout “So-far-bad-to-size-‘er?”
Anyone else?
honolulu advertiser, appropriately, was the honolulu Agonizer
nowadays, i kind of like Honolulu I’m-a-Star-Fantasizer
I saw a brief sory in the New York Times about how the LA Times is about to tart charging for access.
Tart charging is the world’s oldest profession.
Unlike a few other publications that charge to access only their “premium” content, doesn’t the Star-Advertiser place its entire print edition behind a pay wall?
I noticed they started running AP stories behind the pay wall this past week.
You can save that nickel by accessing every web site in the world at the same time.
print newspaper ad revenue hits 50 year low:
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/02/newspaper-ad-revenues-fall-to-50-year.html
and loss of govt ads will just keep the spiral spinning.
shameful, shameless and timely reminder:
Hawaii Public Radio presents Keeping a Clean Shop in the Marketplace of Ideas: A Discussion of Journalistic Ethics.
UH Manoa School of Architecture Auditorium, Room 205, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, 7-8:30pm.
Moderated by HPR Executive Talk Show Producer, Beth Ann Kozlovich and featuring special guests: Neal Conan, Host of the national radio program, Talk of the Nation; John Temple, Editor of Civil Beat; the Star Advertiser’s Mike Gordon; and Gerald Kato, Associate Professor of Journalism, UH Manoa and Board member of Media Council Hawaii.
HPR thanks UH Manoa Outreach College for helping to make this event possible.
Phone: 808-955-8821
Email: members@hawaiipublicradio.org
Web: http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org
it is shameful and shameless from one perspective, but from another angle it is just more sadness from the sadvertiser. It’s desperate businessmen who are trying to squeeze every last drop of blood from a dying investment. It’s like watching the movie Titanic, with the upper classes running for the lifeboats and locking the rest of us in steerage. And we already know how this movie is going to end. This is stage three of cancer, and the chemo ain’t working.