[Husker] Journal-Star to start charging for website

[Tony Lambert]

If I may Provide a couple of links to sites that are free for Husker info. 
http://www.cornnation.com/ and then this one http://www.huskermax.com




Tony Lambert
-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynette Tillner
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:42 PM
To: Mike Nolan ; Richard Alloway
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Journal-Star to start charging for website

My brother and I recently had this conversation. Larry is a journalist. He 
said the newspapers got themselves in this mess. And they did to some 
extent. In the early days of the World Wide Web (remember calling it THAT?), 
giving free access to information is what the techies did. Then 
commercialism came in - added banners, ads and all kinds of extra clicks we 
all hate. Businesses need to make money to stay in business. The cost of 
providing news, is more than just the paper, ink, and press time. It's about 
journalism and photojournalists, etc. It's a tough business, always has been 
in some ways, and it's dying, especially in truly small towns, where we live 
news can be hard to find now a days and there is a market for that. Everyone 
seems to have national news. I want the news in my home town and towns I 
care about, not just news of "national" interest as determined by the big 
media types.

I'll pay a reasonable fee for what I want to read. Now, does that mean I'll 
pay to read Husker news in the LJS, OWH and other Nebraska papers? Maybe one 
or two, but not all. And if someone will tell me the same accurately 
reported and fairly stated information for free (like on a Facebook page, 
blog, etc) well, I'll take free over pay any day, my Mama didn't raise no 
dummy!

This is one of those, everyone needs to go to the pay model or it's gonna 
hurt those that do and still not necessarily benefit those that don't kind 
of situations! Also, finding the "reasonable" price might be an issue as 
well. I hate the self renewing subscriptions - I can never remember what I 
did, my husband complains about the automatic withdrawals from the checking 
or credit card accounts and then it's a real hassle to cancel the 
subscription! To avoid the family argument, I usually just don't go there; 
preferring to get my Husker news for free however I can.


Lynette (Tillner) Peavey
ltillner at yahoo.com


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From: Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com>
To: Richard Alloway <ralloway1 at unl.edu>
Cc: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Journal-Star to start charging for website

> And my understanding is up to ten articles a month will be free here 
> before=
>  the charges kick in.  Print subscribers will get a discounted rate for 
> onl=
> ine subscriptions.

Fine.  If they want to fully commercialize their site (Lee Enterprises
recently went through a planned bankruptcy, after all, so NOT GOING
BROKE AGAIN is important to them), then they can pay people, including
the Husker List, to bring traffic to their site.
--
Mike Nolan

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