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The Freeploid: Putting the “K” in “Kwality”

Yesterday, news leaked out that the Burlington Free Press is imposing subscription price increases. The paper hasn’t formally released the tidings; it’s just sending notices to individual subscribers. Chickenshit.

Well, today’s page 3 (print and e-newspaper editions) brought the following reflection of the Kwality Jernalism we can expect from the new, costlier Freeploid:

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Yup. “Breaks.”

Whatever our subscription dollars are paying for (extra-large margins, pictures and fonts; lots of reader-generated content; plenty of stock photography), not enough is going into the editorial process.