So Farewell Daily Telegraph...

[Gromit]

I have been reading you since I was nine. 40 years, but now you are going behind a paywall (like the Times did).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21946916

Seriously, I will not be subscribing.

Would you Daily Mail (or other publication) readers subscribe if it went behind a paywall?

[youngmafbog]

sorry gromit, how rude, I forgot to answer your questoin.

No I would not pay for a site, neither do I regularly pay for a paper copy although if I am commuting or working abroad I sometimes do.

[Gromit]

The Telegraph website is nearly 20 years old. It was launched in 1994. I realise that newspaper economics change, but to suddenly charge for something that has been free for 20 years is a difficult sell. They do not appear to be enhancing it or having any more content, so I will no longer be linking to it.

I have never liked the Guardian, but I used to like the Observer (when Lohnro owned it) but now it is just a Sunday Guardian and I do not look at it. Like sp, I read most of my newspapers and magazines on the iPad and prefer that to the physical paper (with the exception of Private Eye).

I agree with jno, when content goes behind a wall, it drops from the national consciousness.

[ludwig]

I wouldn't pay for online news. If all the news sites went behind paywalls I'd use the BBC website (which I already pay for anyway), buy the odd printed version or rely on TV/Radio.

[anotheoldgit]

If this below is a sample of what the Telegraph has to offer, I don't think it will be missed.

MORE FROM THE TELEGRAPH

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Why Doctor Who is the ultimate time-traveller 18 Mar 2013

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[Gromit]

Not sure how you compiled that list AOG

This is the Daily Telegraph homepage...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Can't see any of the stories you listed on it?

[FredPuli43]

Oh no ! The Sun is going paywall ! What is Murdoch thinking ?

With The Times you get "free" daily Sunday Times and Times in print, by vouchers, and the online version too, with 'offers' which are pretty useless for most. Latest was tea, a glass of champagne, cakes, and free admission to the last ,and public, day of Chelsea Flower Show, a snip at £135 each. Gosh! Thanks. They do offer the occasional free cinema ticket, too.

[FredPuli43]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

There's the Daily Mail. Worth every free story. Isn't it good about that Kardashian daughter? "All the news that's fit to print" !