The Dullest Moaning Snooze regrettably announced the other day that they were comitting suicide.
The Dallas Morning News plans to launch a new digital strategy on Jan. 18, and it will begin charging for online and mobile access to some of its content on Feb. 15.
The initiatives include an iPad application; an updated iPhone app; and a new design and streamlined navigation for the newspaper’s website, dallasnews.com.
The comprehensive digital package only – including the electronic edition of The News and subscriber content on dallasnews.com, iPad and iPhone applications, but excluding the print newspaper – will cost $16.95 per month. Access to The News’ content on just one of those digital products will cost less.
Subscriber content will include proprietary news and information produced by The News. Headlines, breaking news, most blogs, obituaries, classifieds and nonproprietary content such as syndicated wire stories will remain free.
As I noted in their comments in the story, this “proprietary news and information” includes whiny-assed, angst-ridden hand-wringer Steve Blow (go here to read his attack on Christmas – and Stevie, what’s this we  Christians BS, paleface?), Maureen Dowd-wannabe Jacquelynn Floyd (one of her  whine-fests can be found here).
Then there’s Gromer Jeffers, who acts & writes like he’s on the Dallas County Demoscum payroll.  (Don’t believe me?  This is who little Gromie hangs out with.)
Plus, the site has technical issues which I won’t get into here.
And for all this, they want $17 a month.
Not only no, but fuckin’ hell no!!!!!  The site itself is substandard, a lot of content comes from Assphyxiated Piss and what they call “wire services” (actually, a good chunk of it comes from their next-door neighbor, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram), and the comments contained in any given news article usually contain a goodly amount of spam…and they want money for this.
They want money for something I can get for free through RSS.
S’long, Moaning Snooze.  Instead of trying to raise rates on folks who already think you’re not that good, how about raising the quality of your product, hm?
Or would that be too much, y’know, work?
RIP to what used to be a damn good newspaper.
This just in from the estate of Elizabeth Edwards:
“All of my furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles owned by me at the time of my death, I give and bequeath to my children,” the will stated.
There was no mention of her husband in the five-page document.
You can bet the Breck Boy ain’t feelin’ the love no mo.
And while we’re on the subject of a good laugh, check out this video. It’ll give you Crackberry addicts a new perspective on your electronic leash.
Dismissed™