Newspaper Paywalls

[sp1814]

What do you do when your favourite newspaper puts up a paywall?

Do you pay to get content, or move to another online rival?

I ask, because my favourite right wing source (the Telegraph) only allows readers a limited number of article views per month before a block. This means that if I want to read quality journalism from 'the right', I have nowhere to go.

What do you do?

[EDDIE51]

Easy to get round it, the paywall looks for 'Cookies' so just clear the cookies and start again.

[Zacs-Master]

Trust my own judgement. Newspapers are only there to preach to their converted readers really.

[douglas9401]

I'll bet they kick themselves for not thinking of that, Eddie.

[Jackdaw33]

I would go to my newsagent and buy a copy.

[Zacs-Master]

LOL, dooogie.

[Jackdaw33]

That's very clever, Eddie. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[ladybirder]

Frustrates me sp. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion I'll have to pay as I can't read the Telegraph links on here which is annoying.

[Buenchico]

The HuffPost probably leans a little closer to the right than to the left, Sp1814, so it might meet your needs. It's certainly a well-respected news source anyway, so it's always worth a look:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

The Independent was always a good read in print and it remains so online:
http://www.independent.co.uk/

My own first choice of newspaper is The Times but the whole of its online content has been behind a paywall for as long as I can remember. So I tend to only read it (in the print edition) when I'm taking train journeys. Otherwise I'm happy to get my news from the 'Big 3' internationally-respected news sources (BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera), backed up the HuffPost and The Independent.

[EDDIE51]

^ It works try it.

[ToraToraTora]

what the morning star are putting up pay walls, not very socialist SP!

[hc4361]

If you value it, pay for it.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd frequent another news site. It's the news one requires not an editor's political stance.

[Buenchico]

^^^ One of the exercises we had to do on my journalism course, O_G, was to take the same news story and then to write leaders, based upon it, for several different newspapers. These days I can read an editorial in, say, The Guardian and instantly translate it into Daily Mail format (or vice versa) with virtually no effort. So I reckon that I'm reasonably immune to whatever political bias has been placed on whatever I'm reading ;-)

[naomi24]

I go elsewhere. I'm quite capable of reading between the lines - and deciding what sort of spin that particular publication might put on any particular story.

[sapelesam]

I subscribe to the Daily Telegraph paper, gets me a discount, then I get online for free.

[ladybirder]

you subscribe sam - so it's not free??

[mikey4444]

Read The Guardian !

[Jackdaw33]

Someone's up early! I only got up for a Jimmy then back to bed.

Read the Guardian? The only thing it is fit for is wiping your aris and even then I would be careful.

[anotheoldgit]

No you didn't you got up to have a jimmy and also a shuffty at what's going off in AnswerBank.

[anotheoldgit]

Just clear your history, it also works on that Google pop-up.