The KC Star website now requires a paid membership
 

What an absolute crock of shit. You can read the New York Times and Washington Post online, but you have to pay if you want to read the freaking Kansas City Star??? I'm not sure who was behind this stupid business decision, but it's so ridiculous that Scott Pioli must be involved somehow.

We have landed on the MOON

Just a desperation move to try and stay in business. Newspapers are dying.

Somebody just buy one and post it all. That'll learn em~

Q

Every story I clicked on opened

It's because newspapers are bleeding and they're trying new revenue streams. Subscriptions and advertising are down about everywhere because people are going on-line more and more... so they're trying to recoup the money from it.

Bigger city papers like NY have a much larger subscription/advertising base to draw from so they haven't hit on as hard of times yet. Yet.

I had no problem earlier today.

The good news for the people who pay the membership is that the KC star website traffic will be nonexistent and they'll lose all their advertisers, eliminating all of those annoying popup ads.

It started within the last hour or so, because I had no problem earlier either. People are already bitching about it on Twitter.

Clean out your cookies and you should be able to view articles again.

They open, but after about 5 seconds a Press+ membership banner covers the article so that you can't read it.

Wasn't this talked about several months ago?

I use Firefox, it says I have to pay. When I use Google Chrome, it opens.

Figure that one out.