http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jUKFN5dgQ9zftjAOZ8ajWiedUkPgD96VC4080DENVER (AP) — With backing from three entrepreneurs, staffers of the recently shuttered Rocky Mountain News plan to start an online news publication if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News' 150th anniversary.
The local venture, InDenverTimes.com, would go live on May 4 if backers meet their subscription goal.
The site would offer some news free, with advertising revenue footing part of the bill. Readers who buy subscriptions starting at $4.99 a month for a year's commitment would get extra features, including columns, interactive features, feeds to mobile devices and customizable content.
Now add this one:
Thank you for your subscription pledge of 12 months - $59.88
($4.99/month).
We Look forward to bringing you the vision based on a 150 year tradition, beginning May 4, 2009.
IN DENVER TIMES
(An email I received.)
Do you know why I got this email? It's because I pledged to buy a subscription. (I will be charged when and if they can cobble together enough pledgers to make it a going concern.)
See? Not everyone's a loser who thinks that things are free. I fully expect to spend several hundred dollars per year --approaching a thousand dollars-- for quality intelligence.
Let's hope that their audience comes to believe that things are not free.
Note to INDenverTimes: Drop the he said/she said garbage. Give me intelligence. I have zero interest in someone's balanced counterpoint to intelligence. I want facts and analysis.
