CNN.com Unforced Error?

[Axaday]

For some years my goto news site has been cnn.com. I have no idea how much ad revenue they got from me stopping in twice a day and clicking maybe a dozen articles. Probably not a whole bunch. For a year or so I've been occasionally hitting a daily limit on how many articles I can read for free. Today you have to be a registered user to see anything but headlines. You can read unlimited by paying a subscription and have a limit just for registering, but walkups like me get zero.

I do know this is somewhat entitled, but I'm used to being able to read articles. It's been increasingly frustrating to click articles that friends share on Facebook and even ones that Facebook just picks for me and hitting a paywall. Until there is no reasonably alternative, I'm not registering an account to read a website.

How many people are going to buy subscriptions versus how much is their ad revenue going to fall? Are they shooting themselves in the foot or will this work?

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I dunno. I don't do CNN, but usually I'll just try Reader View, and if that doesn't work, see who else is covering it.

 

[Dake]

You can also just use Apnews.com. That's where all the other sites get their stuff from anyway before they add their twist to it. I used to do Reuters, but they've gone subscription recently too.

 

[Axaday]

You can also just use Apnews.com. That's where all the other sites get their stuff from anyway before they add their twist to it. I used to do Reuters, but they've gone subscription recently too.

Sounds good, I'll try it. I didn't realize they had a website.