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Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story
Hugh Pickens writes "The decision by the Washington Post to publish an article exclusively online has angered many readers who still pay for the print edition of the newspaper and highlighted the thorny issues newspaper editors still face in serving both print and online audiences. The 7,000 word story about the slaying in 2006 of Robert Wone, a young lawyer who was found stabbed to death in a luxurious townhouse in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington where a 'polyamorous family' of three men lived, is the sort of long-form reporting that newspaper editors say still justifies print in the digital age and many editors agree that print is still the place to publish deep investigative reporting, in part to give certain readers a reason to keep paying for news. 'If you're doing long form, you should do it in print,' said newspaper consultant Mark Potts. 'This just felt like a nice two-part series that they didn't have the room to put in the paper, so they just threw it on the Web.' Editors at The Post say they considered publishing the article in print, but they concluded it was too long at a time when the paper, like most others, was in dire financial straits and trying to scale back newsprint costs. 'Newspapers are going broke in part because news can be read, free of charge, on the Internet,' wrote one reader in a letter to the editor. 'As a nearly lifelong reader of The Post, I could not read this article in the paper I pay for and subscribe to; instead I came on it accidentally while scrolling online for business reasons.'"
LOL, well that suspicion certainly had crossed my mind. I sure hope its not the truth because it reaffirms everything the right says about the Post, and about the undeserved honeymoon the "Liberal" media is giving Obama.
I give Obama some credit for not being a liberal ideologue the right painted him to be, but there are a lot of issues where he really has turned out to be Bush Lite and we needed a lot cleaner break from Cheney Inc. than he's given us. His failure to stop warrantless wire tapping in particular has dropped him a few notches in my eyes though it was obvious from his Senate votes that was coming. That brain dead stimulus package he signed was probably the worst. If they had spent that money intelligently they could have solve our energy problems, and maybe health care and education too, instead they added a trillion to our national debt and we are getting nothing out of it. If nothing else hand out coupons for appliances and stuff like the Chinese, at least their stimulus seems to be actually working.
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It can be, if you live there, or do business there. If not, then well, it doesn't matter to you, and since it's nicely contained on that newspaper's website, you don't have to follow it. Thank you for completly missing the point. I'm sure the poster apreciates being trolled by an AC who most likely lives nowhere near him about his local news.
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