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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It bothers me to see people here trying to outdo one another by how little they pay to get a subscription. You are the problem. I go out of my way to subscribe to other newspapers that I rarely look at just to support them.

If you agree having a free press is important, why aren't you paying for it?
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I subscribe to eight newspapers.

People who brag about not reading newspapers sound to me like people bragging about how much junk food they eat. Congratulations?[/quote]

Sure there is a free press in the US.  Supporting it is not mandatory. The Soviets had to support Pravda.  But I don't have to support WaPo or the NYT. If you choose to, that's all good with me.  If you can subscribe to 8 papers, you must have alot of disposable income.[/quote]

DP, but the Post is $29 a year. I also get the Los Angeles Times online for $12 a year and the Wall Street Journal online for $52 for a year. That's a grand total of $93 for three papers — not exactly the kind of annual expense that requires you to be rolling in cash. I do also get the Sunday NYT delivered to my house, which is several hundred dollars a year, so that IS more expensive, but none of this is totally cost-prohibitive.[/quote]

And yet, they still sell advertising space. If you can't break even selling ads AND charging for your product, you are doing something wrong.[/quote]

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