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[QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 2823229, member: 16"]
Exactly what I was thinking. 20 dollars is too much for me, as I don't live in the area, and don't have a ton of investment of the nitty gritty day to day news (shooting on Salina, etc...). I DO have an investment in Syracuse sports though, and would gladly hand over five dollars a month for that content. If it means Mike Waters and Donna Ditota continue to do amazing work, I'd do it.

As a former broadcast and print journalist, nary a day went by when we wouldn't complain about the accountants taking over journalism. The Pandora's Box that is free online content was opened by the journalists. Editors and managing editors thought this cute little niche place (the Internet) would be a great secondary source of advertising money. They never realized the monster the Internet would become. Once they allowed people to read content for free and advertising for print editions still hadn't caught up -- well, the print journalism racket committed suicide. In this case, it would have been nice if accountants made the call. I think if that had happened, paywalls would be the norm, and people would accept them with no issue.
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