Comments on: Lancaster Newspapers to charge for online access http://newslanc.com/2010/02/03/lancaster-newspapers-to-charge-for-on-line-access/ News, Comment and Culture for Lancaster County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:50:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://newslanc.com/2010/02/03/lancaster-newspapers-to-charge-for-on-line-access/comment-page-1/#comment-28341 Anonymous Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:53:56 +0000 http://newslanc.com/?p=13238#comment-28341 Mr. Schreiber should have been left go when the newspaper had a chance. His failure as a newspaper visionary was evident immediately upon his ascension to the editorship of the New Era. That the paper would put this establishment-genuflecting, intellectual light-weight in charge of their online operation demonstrates just how much the dinosaurs in charge at LNP are victims of truism, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" I can hear them now, "That youngster Ernie really knows alot about the 'intger' net, let's put him in charge of that!" Mr. Schreiber should have been left go when the newspaper had a chance. His failure as a newspaper visionary was evident immediately upon his ascension to the editorship of the New Era.

That the paper would put this establishment-genuflecting, intellectual light-weight in charge of their
online operation demonstrates just how much the dinosaurs in charge at LNP are victims of truism, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”

I can hear them now, “That youngster Ernie really knows alot about the ‘intger’ net, let’s put him in charge of that!”

]]> By: Anonymous http://newslanc.com/2010/02/03/lancaster-newspapers-to-charge-for-on-line-access/comment-page-1/#comment-28340 Anonymous Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:06:07 +0000 http://newslanc.com/?p=13238#comment-28340 Obituaries aren't news; they're advertising. That's <em>paid content</em>. If I was over at WGAL, I'd be celebrating this move - and trying to figure out a way to put obituaries on the WGAL website, free to the funeral home, free to the reader, and some nice advertising from funeral homes, churches, and flower shops on the pages. They're getting a little funeral home and flower shop advertising on their broadcast, and none from local churches, and this would be a way for them to enhance their revenue stream. Come to think of it, perhaps NewsLanc might like to expand their news coverage to more "hard news" like this, to balance out the opinions. It wouldn't be hard to set up an application where funeral homes could enter obituaries into a password-protected page, so that it's relatively painless for everyone. Obituaries aren’t news; they’re advertising. That’s paid content.

If I was over at WGAL, I’d be celebrating this move – and trying to figure out a way to put obituaries on the WGAL website, free to the funeral home, free to the reader, and some nice advertising from funeral homes, churches, and flower shops on the pages. They’re getting a little funeral home and flower shop advertising on their broadcast, and none from local churches, and this would be a way for them to enhance their revenue stream.

Come to think of it, perhaps NewsLanc might like to expand their news coverage to more “hard news” like this, to balance out the opinions. It wouldn’t be hard to set up an application where funeral homes could enter obituaries into a password-protected page, so that it’s relatively painless for everyone.

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