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New Zealand Herald editor Shayne Currie, told ATV3 television on Saturday, “We can’t go on the way we are at the moment.”
He said there had to be some monetisation of the internet to fund journalism, and the New York Times model probably worked the best of all.
That model allows readers to get a small number of stories free before they must pay to access more, but gives free access to print subscribers.
“I see it (a paywall) as inevitable,” Mr Currie said.
I just cannot believe that the owners of the Herald are so out of touch with public opinion that they believe the paywall model will work.
Are Mr Currie and his management team really that ignorant of the widespread contempt that exists for the mainstream media?
Do they not know just how fed up they public are with a diet of lies and distortions and exaggerations and deliberate omissions all designed to progress the Progressive/ Liberal agenda?
Do they not know that most reporters working in mainstream media today are widely reviled as liars and political agents who seek to avoid their traditional role of providing objective news and instead shade and shape and massage and adjust every story out there so that it furthers the liberal social political plan??
This gang of crooks and liars and phoneys and cheats now expect me to pay for the privilege of having my intelligence abused by such a collection of miscreants.?????
Those fresh from uni half educated well indoctrinated watermelon worshipping tyros, or the braindead extreme left Marxist propagandists from previous generations have nothing for me, and I have nothing for them but utter contempt, derision and mistrust.
Good luck with your paywall scumbags. But I will tell you right now, it won’t stop the collapse of the media industry.
What will?
A return to traditional objective reporting and a balanced opinion section.
However, with such out of touch management so obsessively dedicated to the pursuance of the liberal political agenda there’s Buckley’s chance of that.
Frankly, I just can’t wait for them to go down. The sooner the better, and the paywall will do a lot to hasten their demise. So get on with it you dinosauric liberal losers. Put up the paywall.
Make my day.
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7 responses to “NZ Herald To Go Behind Paywall”
As if their socialist market will pay to read it! Probably start lobbying for taxpayer funding…
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..and John Key will give it to them 🙂
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The Herald will lose a lot of readers.
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The more the better Jim.
The only way to effectively deal with the liberal propaganda machine is to defund it.
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Excellent idea Shayne, baby.
(Recommend you never interrupt our enemy while he’s making a commercial mistake RB).
Paywalls further isolate Newspapers from mass opinion making.
In the comrade Herald’s case……what could be a better outcome?
The papers are near finished, it’s tv news and CA that conservatives have to recognise as the most effective mouthpiece of the left.
An NZ Pajamas Media site…..we can but dream.
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I couldn’t agree more with this post.
When the Herald is not cutting and pasting from AFP or Reuters – which is most of the time – they are truly struggling with their own journalistic quality. These agencies are very American in tone and intended audience.
Some of the columns, granted, are solid. But the general “news” is poorly written, shamelessly NZ centric, and heavily biased (though I see it going both ways).
Objectivity – a key criterion in effective journalism – is tragically AWOL. It’s a terrible shame, because we have some quality writers in NZ (as the blogosphere has shown us), and people with genuine interest in transmitting useful information in an informative way.
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coin for the ferry man perhaps…mind you, the the soon to be released “tabloid version” will be more suited to its readership and closer to form… “Aliens Stole MY Baby”
..point being…i rather be anally probed by ET,than pay to read the “Herald”(misnomer)…more like harbinger…for those still employed .
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