UK
readers of The Sun are to be charged for online access to the
newspaper later this year. News International has said it will allow
readers access to 20 sensationalist made-up articles a month and then
readers will need to subscribe to read the rest of the rubbish it
produces.
"The
Sun website is fantastic but I believe that we are all suffering in
the print world,” said Chief Executive Mike Billingsworth. “Part
of those people are saying day in, day out 'why am I paying for the
Sun when I can get a load of made up nonsense by reading Surreal
Scoop for free?'."
The
Sun, like sister paper The Times before it, will retreat behind a
paywall thus forcing both online and newsprint readers to pay to
learn details of which celebrity has been to the gym, slept with
another celebrity or is starring in a TV show on Sky.
The
newspaper industry as a whole is struggling to compete with an online
world which can provide news of events as they happen from all over
the world and, most importantly, no need to wait a day to read what
celebrities wear when they take the dog for a walk. The Sun argues
that by forcing people to subscribe to read it's offerings it will be
able to retain the high level of output that the nation has come to expect such as the world's leading network of close celebrity
confidents happy to spill the beans on tearful late night mobile
phone conversations that everyone else would expect only to be known
to the callers, and perhaps their voicemail systems.
“Rest
assured our long standing journalistic traditions will not be
affected by this change to accessing our online content,” said
Billingsworth. “The Sun will continue to be news of the tits, by
the tits, for the tits.”
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