Dear June,
We want to let you know that Times Online will be replaced by our brand new websites, thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk in early May.
Both will give you the opportunity to explore, enjoy and browse our titles like never before and are available by subscription only.
Instead of just reading the news, you can watch it, challenge it and debate it.
No price for the subscription is given. I started to register for the free trial period, but they wanted too much information. I will miss the Times, but unless the cost is quite low, I'll give up reading the newspaper.
Will you pay to read the Times?
not I, but then being a journo I probably won't have to - I would be surprised if my employer doesn't buy access for everyone.
ReplyDeleteBut if I had to pay, I wouldn't. No point when the same info, more or less, is available elsewhere for free (with the exception of their faith section including Ruth G, which I would miss).
Nope, I won't. I can get the news elsewhere. The only thing I read with (rare) consistency was Gledhill's stuff. It's a Murdoch rag, so not my fave read anyway for the other news.
ReplyDeleteRuth is about all I will miss at the Times, too.
ReplyDeleteCathy, I'm sure you will have access through your employer.
No - I don't pay for stuff I can get elsewhere - news outlets who charge will soon go the way of the dodo
ReplyDeleteIt's £1 per day, but with a discount for a week's reading.
ReplyDeleteNot likely, Murdoch is up there as one of the most evil beings on the face of the earth as far as I am concerned and I would never consciously tip up money for any of his product.
ReplyDeleteNo, No subscription...but honest, I LOVE Ruth (and she´s not always as friendly to our progressive points of view as I´d like her to be)...besides, LIKING and LOVING women disproves the ridiculous idea that Gays don´t (observe the latest Lord Archblockheadness, Primate of Nigeria and opening remark death march) succumb to female charms...Ruth is beautiful on the outside too...I´m also a smitten FAN of Ruth, Mimi, Margaret, fs, Bonnie, IT, Kirkepiscatoid, The Lovely Mona, Mother Amelia, M.D. Glasspool, Katie Sherrod, Lynn and Caminante too, I´m a real online womanidolizer...as I said at Ruths the otherday...women are the ¨cats meow¨ (even if I happen to be a barking old dog)!
ReplyDeleteLeo! My heart beats faster after reading your lovely words about women. Sometimes I think that gay men appreciate women more than straight men. You just don't want to have sex with us, which can make friendships special, because sex does not lurk.
ReplyDeleteI won't be paying my money. I remember when the New York Times charged for access to it's opinion columns, few paid up, and the columns quickly appeared on other websites. The powers dropped the plan as unsuccessful.
Oh Leonardo! --Grandmere, post more stuff that will incite Leonardo to make more declarations! Love you too Leo!
ReplyDeleteAnd, no, I think paying for information on-line would be deadly.... just sayin'.
WV: nesting
Not likely, Murdoch is up there as one of the most evil beings on the face of the earth as far as I am concerned
ReplyDeleteThis made me want to cheer.
Even though I have worked for Murdoch papers (the Times & Sunday Times, to be specific), so I'm not really in a position to talk.
I only go when someone else links. Ruth is articulate even when I disagree with what she says.
ReplyDeleteNo way. And now that the REAL Times (in New Yawk City) is going up to $20 a Month on my kindle I'm going to dispense with that as well!
ReplyDeletePAY for a News Corp. paper? Preposterous!
We poll at 100% against paying for the Times, but I don't expect the powers at the Times to take note.
ReplyDeleteWell, crumbs.
ReplyDeleteBut then I much prefer the Guardian anyway.
(Nope. Won't pay for it.)
Some papers tried this in the late 1990ies. They failed. Lost nearly all their readers - and surely, that cannot be the point of a news paper?
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian is my favorite of the English newspapers. If the subscription scheme makes money for the Times, other newspapers may follow suit.
ReplyDeleteBut then I much prefer the Guardian anyway
ReplyDeleteHurrah!!!!
The Guardian is my favorite of the English newspapers
Hurrah again!!!!
I forgot to say, in The Times I quite like Frank Skinner's column (in case people haven't come across it, he is a comedian, but also Catholic, and talks about his faith quite often while being mildly amusing. I like him).
ReplyDeleteWon't pay. Can't pay. Have enough trouble making the light, water, cat food, medical co-pays, and insurance and go-juice for the car bills. The freebies will have to do. If no one pays, they will probably come off of it.
ReplyDeleteNYT will start charging again for its web pages sometime this year. I don't know what but it is a desperate move. So far Murdoch doesn't own it but at this rate he will and that will be the end of my reading the NYT... a habit started back in 1974.
ReplyDeleteWV: coura...ge!
Caminante, I won't pay for the NYT either. I believe they will be sorry, but will they reverse themselves once again? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteNewspapers will have far less influence. Those who pay for the paper copies are already getting less for more. When the online viewer numbers drop, the advertisers will not be pleased. I believe that we will see even more investigative journalism from free online media who make money from online advertising.