Listen to Repository Executive Editor Jeff Gauger (on a excerpted clip from a WKSU audio news report by former Repository editor M.L. Schultze) as he tells a meeting of the Akron Press Club (very recently) that his company GateHouse Media Ohio is "seriously" considering charging readers for content on CantonRep.com.Once you listen, take the poll below the audio link and send a message to The Rep as to whether or not you are willing to pay for content.
Perhaps if there wasn't so much garbage on there, I would consider paying a small fee to read the news, and even comments if they were reader friendly.
ReplyDeleteI certainly wouldn't pay to read a raving lunatic spew her venom, the product of a deranged sick mind, under a hundred different handles all over the place. If the powers that be at the REP took charge of the comments, and enforced it's rules, it could be a pleasurable forum to visit. I learned a lot by reading the old comment section. Much of it from people like Martin Olson, who wrote great comments. I never once read a comment where he attacked other commentors, even when they weren't too kind to him. He was a perfect example of what a commentor should do, state your opinion, and leave it at that, no arguing or personal attacks. I looked forward to his contributions to the comment section. I missed him when he and others such as Lee Baxter left. Too bad they were ran off by the stench that grew more foul smelling by the day.