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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.
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We have landed on the MOON
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Just a desperation move to try and stay in business. Newspapers are dying.
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Somebody just buy one and post it all. That'll learn em~
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Every story I clicked on opened
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This was bypassing my ad blocker, but I switched to private browsing and that took care of it. So I guess only people who can't Google a solution have to pay--kind of like a stupid person tax, which I have no problem with. They would've just spent that money on lottery tickets and 99-cent cheeseburgers anyway.
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Me too. At at rate of $0, I think I can swing that.
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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.
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I had no problem earlier today.
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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.
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