Why The Daily Blog will never be behind a paywall
The Democracy Project is behind a Paywall.
Most journalists worth anything are behind a paywall.
Stuff has just gone behind a Gated Community Wall.
TVNZ is about to begin their user pays Paywall.
The Daily Blog will never, ever, ever be behind a Paywall.
We believe passionately that Paywalls create two classes of information citizen, those with the money to read what is going on and those who don’t have the money and so don’t see it.
At The Daily Blog we believe passionately that you the citizen should have access to Fourth Estate Journalism that isn’t locked behind a Paywall, what is the point of a Guard Dog for Democracy if it’s only locked behind a wall?
We stand with the ordinary average citizen who doesn’t have the money for weekly Paywall subscriptions. We will never be behind a paywall, but we will occasionally pass the plate around to keep us doing what we do.
Our pledge to you as New Zealanders and our pledge to Fourth Estate Journalism is that we will never go behind a Paywall.
You as Citizens in a liberal progressive Democracy deserve better than a User Pays Fourth Estate.
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Thank you Martyn. I hope you have enough resources to continue.
If writing is your job and you don’t want to work in the MSM you would need a paywall to get paid.
I simply remove any site that has a paywall – but am very glad you currently have no plan to implement one as the voice of the poor cannot afford this luxury
Noone should pay the foreign controlled media a dime. If you must read an article in a zionist rag like the Herald, https://archive.is will get you past most of them.
Paywall=automatic fingers. Ditto subscriptions, cookies, etc. Thank you @ TDB.
I enjoy my daily fix and I’m happy to contribute.
I wish I could support more left wing commentators who have interesting points of view the msm never cover but their analysis and research must require a lot of time and energy (what good journalism should be about)
Keep up the good work.