The Herald announces:
NZME, owner of the 'New Zealand Herald', plans to put up a paywall around premium journalism on its website, says chief executive Michael Boggs.Based on the Herald's increasing tabloidisation, that would be a laughably small amount of content.
If any.
The phrase 'the Herald's premium journalism' has become virtually on oxymoron. And only a moron would pay to have to have the Herald's reporters pass on their gossip or paid advertising as news.
And since the Herald's rare excursions into quality are generally lifted wholesale from the world's other, better, news sources, why wouldn't you just read your news direct?
So, no, I won't be signing up. Would you?
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