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Originally Posted by biguc
And with the Freep thinking they can charge for their marginal content online, looks like Metro is the paper of the future.
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My favorite part was when Paul Samyn tried to convince everybody that - just like iTunes - people will make micro-payments for content. And that might be true, but who in the hell does Paul Samyn think he's kidding?
I don't even know what the Free Press is anymore. Is it a newspaper? Is it a political science journal quietly published by the University of Winnipeg? I subscribed up until I realized that every morning I woke up to some haughty and self-righteous little columnist telling me what an awful person I am. Between Jen Zoratti and Shannon Sampert letting me know that I'm the enemy because I'm male and Mary Agnes Welch and Dan Lett hammering home that I'm a racist bigot who's bringing down the city from the inside because I'm white, I'd had enough.
Cap it all off with the whole True North fiasco that had an entire 'editorial' board openly doing the bidding of ownership and that was enough for me to realize I didn't care what happened with the Free Press anymore. If the Free Press wants to charge me, I think it's cute, but I'm not surprised at just how tone deaf those involved in that decision making are. Nobody will miss them.