Sunday, August 9, 2009

Double billing

Go ahead and try to search for a past article from the Daily Record. Go on. I'll wait.
What follows is more of the haphazard self-destruction following the newspaper's quest for revenue from its online content. What follows, however, indicates the intention to charge subscribers twice for past articles (once for the monthly fee and once for the archived story). My anger subsides into sympathy for these people who show through their actions why newspapers have declined. I withdraw here and leave you with only this quotation from a random page announcing a story is now gone indefinitely.

This story is only available from the Benton County Daily Recordarchives. Articles will be available to purchase from the archives in the near future. Click the link below to search for this story in the archives. If the search doesn't yield any results, enter part of the headline and publicaton date in the search form or contact the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette library in Little Rock at (501) 378-3851 with the section, date and page information below.»Click here to search the Archives.


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