Sunday, December 8, 2013

How's That Pay Wall Working Out??

No worries, guys I'm not putting a pay wall on Luke Warm Sports Opinions.  I would never. Nor would anyone pay for this crap.  Well Richie Whitt, former writer for the Star Tele-gram and Dallas Observer and failed radio host on 105.3 The Fan, he had other plans.  Whitt came out last week with a pay wall for his site, DFW Sportatorium.  If you were wanting to read little quick hits about radio rumors or what he heard from his Cowboys sources, you gonna have to pay.  I just want to start off telling you I have no problem with anyone charging for content, everyone has the right.  If you have ever gone to his site, its full of advertisements from that bless your heart guys, a strip club, Richie's own pizza joint and I think a moving company.  Not sure exactly the amount you can charge to advertise on Richie's sports website and I'm not sure how much it cost to keep a site like that running. Well apparently he was operating at a loss, so he decided the best way to bring in some money is to charge readers $4.95 a month. (by the way you have to have a google account)

Here is my opinion on the situation.  It ridiculous to pay for this website.  He offers opinions and some "rumors" and that is content you can receive for free on numerous websites.  I believe this won't last, only from reading the readers in the comments section, which Richie Whitt replies with a snarky remark.  He are some of my favorites.

GREEDY BASTARD
Wait, so you want me to provide you with daily content? And then you want it for absolutely free? But I'm the greedy one. Do I have that right?
um yeah, because media is based on advertising, if you have a million page hits you sell that to your advertisers and get them to pay, not your consumers...the business model is to make it so good that traffic comes to you and you monetize that with ad buys, cmon you know this
Not that's great but maybe this one is better. 
I wouldn't pay 5 cents for life to read this blog. This proves once and for all that your are the shithead I always deemed you to be. Hit the pavement and get some more advertisers you lazy SOB.
Wait, because I want to be paid for my work makes me a "shithead"? You may refuse to join my site and that's cool. But a "shithead" seems a tad strong.
Wanting to get paid doesn't make you a "shithead". Thinking you will get paid for the level of content you provide for the price you are asking makes you a "shithead". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shithead&defid=5232203
The friggin guy actual sent him a link to urban dictionary so he knew what "shithead" meant. 
Just what I have been waiting for! A poorly designed "blog" where I get to pay a monthly fee for some exclusive HSO's from some schmuck that works at a struggling pizza joint!
I find it amusing that when my content is free you visit daily and comment and are generally satisfied. When my content costs 25 cents a day suddenly I'm a "schmuck who works at a struggling pizza joint" and my content is flatly unreadable. Ah, perspective.
Here is one of my favorites and I'll end you with this. 
Me too, I've liked the RW for years. May not agree with everything he sees right, but everyone has their own opinions. But I feel like a friend kicked me in the nuts and now wants my lunch money. Good riddance RW

(Sybil, better reconsider...)
The comments in here will always be free. And, yeah, you're probably right, Sybil's reconsidering marrying me because I'm profiting from my blog. Deal-breaker.

Again I'm not mad at the guy, I just think its funny that he believes his content is something someone would pay even $0.25 a day for.  I hear Richie is actually an extremely cool in person but even some of his former Fan buddies are cutting him lose.  Probably stemming from his "reporting" on radio station rumors that aren't apparently true.  Richie is obsessed with breaking news instead of providing actual insight.
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