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Why pay to subsribe to the Albany Times-Union when you can get the Washington Post, NY Times, or National Review On-Line?

The Albany Times Union still gets read online because they charge what it's worth, nothing.

Conversely, The Schenectady Gazette just went to a paid service and lost 94% of their readers.....they all went to the Times Union.

>>The Albany Times Union still gets read online because they charge what it's worth, nothing.

>>Conversely, The Schenectady Gazette just went to a paid service and lost 94% of their readers.....they all went to the Times Union.

I didn't know about either planning on charging fees. I just recall the Times-Union as a miserably liberal paper which relied on Reuters and AP for every bit of its non-local reporting and which had only about 2 pages of local news... and even then relied on AP stories when it was anything worth being covered by AP.

But I'm glad to hear there are stories like the the Schnectady Gazette's getting out there to serve as a warning. Burn, Schnectady, burn!