Unbelievable they want you to pay to read the news, you can read 20 stories for free then u have to subscribe. What a joke! Smells like stinky Rupy murd****.

Of course that was coming. Did anyone think that it would continue to be free when the paper costs $2 ?????

Dunno how anyone can do only online news, it is simply *not* the same as flicking thru a paper skim reading headline and 1st para until something catches ur interest.

It's been like this for a while.

How I've found to get around it is to go to the parent site then look up the article whats locked on Perth now isn't locked there

elmo said...
It's been like this for a while.

Yep, just vote with your virtual feet and f**k it off. It only delivers crappy news from its parent website.

Fairfax is going broke. They are trying to work out how to make money out of something that is seen by the market as being free. Most of the big Fairfax money spinners are also rans now. Domain less than realestate.com.au, Drive less than carsales.com.au, seek.com.au trumping Fairfax employment.

So Fairfax management are trying to wring money out of something that was once free. It won't work.

Why does everyone think it is their birth right to be given everything for free?

Yes the Fairfax classified ads, primarily in the SMH and the Age were the famous "Rivers of Gold" that flowed for around 100 years. This river is barely a trickle now. The Fairfax business was built upon this river which seperated into the jobs, cars and property tributaries. The end result through bad luck and bad management is Fairfax is struggling with the online versions of their classifies.

Of course its easy to be wise in retrospect. However its not that long ago, around 1996 that the chairman of Fairfax famously slammed down a Saturday edition of the SMH, weighing in at around 2kgs on the boardroom table and said the words to the effect to the board that no computer is ever going to replace this. How wrong he was.

isnt Gina Righthand something to do with this?

I have little trouble reading all aust papers on IT. Headline coverage great

if blocked story open in google, get the full action. Many different slants on the news

How much is the Perthnow going to cost now to have full access?

PS Perthnow if not a Fairfax site.....

harrysurfer said..

divaldo said..



How much is the Perthnow going to cost now to have full access?



PS Perthnow if not a Fairfax site.....

1$ for first 28 days then $4 per month, or you can go one up and it's $6 a week and you get the sunday times delivered to your door,,

Part of the paying is that you get access to fox sports news which is why I thought fair fax was involved,

OK, sounds like same rates as here in Adelaide,

I actually work for News, so am aware of what you get for ya buck. Trying not to be biased, but its a better product than it was before, I too like the extra sports coverage, as I dont have Foxtel, its mandatory viewing on Mondays to catch up on EPL and A League.

News limited own 25% of Foxtel from memory, could be more now.....wish we got it free for work.....

dan111984 said..

harrysurfer said..

Unbelievable they want you to pay to read the news, you can read 20 stories for free then u have to subscribe. What a joke! Smells like stinky Rupy murd****.

Why would you even bother ranting about it? They probably don't even have 20 stories worth reading.

Wasn't ranting just saying bye bye! Never thought it was much good and is therefore why I was shocked you have to pay..

SP said..

Their system is flawed,
Just use private browsing, it doesn't store your history or cookies so the site doesn't know you have been there before. You can read as many articles as you like.

news.com = free

The number of poorly written articles on news websites is nuts. No way am I going to pay to read something that is written to a grade 8 level...