http://www.centernetworks.com/washingtonpost-launches-online-offline-loyalty-program Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.centernetworks.com/washingtonpost-launches-online-offline-loyalty-program/comment-page-#comment-12653 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12653 It doesn't take much for the venerable Post newspaper to follow congress to the gutter. Instead of buying readers with in-depth news of significance, it's providing "pork" for its constituents. Smarmy and senselessly desparate is what it is, and now my trust in its journalistic integrity has gone down another notch. Upon examination, another notch is the bottom, giving rise to the question, "Why subscribe at all? I don't trust it. Can you not understand that your "business side" is intimately connected to your "publishing" side, and that one has an effect on the other. Well, I am cancelling my subscription forthwith, and you can blame it on your poor thinking rather than dynamics of the market. It doesn’t take much for the venerable Post newspaper to follow congress to the gutter. Instead of buying readers with in-depth news of significance, it’s providing “pork” for its constituents. Smarmy and senselessly desparate is what it is, and now my trust in its journalistic integrity has gone down another notch. Upon examination, another notch is the bottom, giving rise to the question, “Why subscribe at all? I don’t trust it. Can you not understand that your “business side” is intimately connected to your “publishing” side, and that one has an effect on the other. Well, I am cancelling my subscription forthwith, and you can blame it on your poor thinking rather than dynamics of the market.

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