I want to respond to a rumor that the editorial board and ownership of Hermann Hearsay are planning to move to a "paid subscription business model" and thereby restrict the availability of some articles and reports to paid subscribers only. This rumor is absolutely untrue and is likely intended to cause concern among our loyal readers!
It has been our long-standing policy here at HH to offer FREE subscriptions to ALL of our readers. We will continue that policy, and I have been authorized to guarantee you that we will never, ever change our FREE subscription policy. We will never consider hiding any of our articles or reports from the view of anyone! Frankly, we think adopting such a policy would be a bit tacky! We don't need to employ such tactics to induce you to pay for our reports since we are FREE to everyone. We don't need to advertise the fact that we have articles and reports that you can't read because you are not a paid subscriber in order to generate subscription fees. We have taken the higher road ..... and we will remain on that higher road!
We believe in an AMERICAN FREE PRESS! We believe that we should be FREE to report on whatever we choose. You in turn are FREE to either read or not read what we report. We will never charge you for reading our website. We are a FREE site! And you are our welcomed and much appreciated regular readers and periodic visitors! We would no more charge you to read our journalistic work than we would charge our neighbor or our best friend for a cool drink of water on the hottest day in July!
That's how we see it. How do you see it?
Lois Lame
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ReplyDeleteJethro
Your price is right, Lois! Build you readership by giving them great value. When you have a large readership, the advertisers will beat a path to your doorstep!
ReplyDeleteOliver T. Shagnasty
Hmmm... This is kind of confusing to me. On one hand you seem to be complaining left and right about not having enough money to report on everything, (It seems lack of money is a recurring comment in your posts), but then you champion the fact that you are giving this drivel away for free. Even the A-C charges for their news, and I'm certain their employees don't work for free. How can you champion an AMERICAN FREE PRESS and imply that all news should be free. Do you think all the students up at the Mizzou J-School believe they should be working for free because there is an American Free Press?? How can an industry that is free survive? Help me out here.
ReplyDeleteVery perceptive, Anonymous! We give our "drivel" away precisely because we recognize that it is "drivel". Our competitors, on the otherhand, seek to collect "fees" for their "drivel". Either they don't recognize the true worth of their "drivel", i.e. nothing, zero, nada, or they are intentionally overcharging unsuspecting subscribers.
ReplyDeleteThe people of the area will be the final judge of what is "drivel" and what is not.
As for the kids at the nation's liberal journalism schools, let them undertake a more noble an productive line of work in business, medicine or engineering. It is my opinion that America needs more entrepreneurs, more doctors and nurses, more engineers and technical people and fewer muck-raking journalists!
Clark Kant
Publisher and Editor In Chief