Plus I don't think your lone voice of opposition will have much effect, sorry!
Thus spake the marketing man. Deserving of this
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Guardian online going behind a paywall?
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were loosing large sums of money every year,
I can see why they hired you, they love that cavalier approach to spelling.
Grrr, beaten to it
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Bloody spelling Nazis. You’ll be disappointed to hear that I’m an engineer and not a tweed jacket wearing journo. Whilst its arguably just as important, I concern myself more with science and math, than I do English. 
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Good input there from Grimy - but let's not let actual facts get in the way of righteous indignation.
I was surprised to read the first post though, as it really didn't seem in keeping with the Graun's digital strategy. If anything, it seems the print edition is being cut further and further back while the website continues to grow. If only certain online-only 'contributors' could be encouraged to stop, that would be even more cost effective. Roy Greenslade, for example; the blogs from random parts of the UK (London, Leeds etc), Lost in Showbiz.
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Are you trying to say you're more 'support' than 'business core'?
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I like Lost in Showbiz
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Bstards, to appease tge shareholders no doubt. All shareholders should be shot. Clarkson included.
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Roy Greenslade is crap, it must be said. You'd have thought that as the digital guru he styles himself as he would have noticed people rarely comment on his pieces and that most that do seem to hate him. I would take that as a cue to stop...
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Pleae God can we stop calling it a paywall. There are plenty of other suitable words and phrases about to indicate charging for a service, we don't have to invent a new one. Grrr
We could have
Monetary Partition
Fiscal Fence
Toll Doorfor a start.
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I suspect the OP has the wrong end of the stick... Alan Rushbridger (for it is he) has very firmly nailed his colours to the mast that the Gruinard will not charge for online content while he is editor. If the paper is about to start doing that then he will almost certainly be for the high jump and News International will be doing all it can to settle scores with him for his role in the NoTW story.
When were Rusbridger's colours nailed to the mast? Certainly not last year:
For his part, Rusbridger said he would be "crazy to be fundamentalist" about rejecting paid-for access out of hand. So he welcomed Rupert Murdoch's decision to experiment and, though sceptical about it being successful, would not be averse to following suit if it was.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/may/19/paywalls-johnwitherow
Wasn't presenting this as a fact btw, just something interesting to come out of a conversation!
Grimy - thanks for the input.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/guardian-editor-paywalls
I maintain unequivocally that if the Guardian (or as Kelvin Mackenzie has it, The World's Worst) abandons free access online or moves towards any kind of online paywall that Rushbridger will be gone.
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So it's not a paywall, it's a tax on Apple users.
Smart move if you ask me.
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Pleae God can we stop calling it a paywall. There are plenty of other suitable words and phrases about to indicate charging for a service, we don't have to invent a new one. Grrr
Why not?
New products new ideas, new words, isn't the world a gorgeous place?I don't see why it shouldn't be paid for?
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Will they be keeping all that public sector job advertising behind the paywall, too?
If so, that could have a very big impact. Surely that's about the only revenue that's been keeping the Graun
not waving, just drowningjust about afloat for years. Will it still be seen by sufficient numbers of people* to make it worthwhile as an advertising medium?* People willing to pay for it, that is.
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Will they be keeping all that public sector job advertising behind the paywall, too?
Read back, apparently it's not a paywall but a charge for the iPad app.
Will only cover a very small section of their users and I presume they can still use an iPad to look at The Guardian in a standard web browser.
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Ah, OK, I see. My fault for not reading the whole thread first!
I'd imagine it will all go behind a paywall at some point though. Hard to see how else a newspaper can make money these days.
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