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Thread ID: 148326 2019-11-05 02:36:00 NZ Herald bk T (215) Press F1
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1464810 2019-11-05 02:36:00 NZ Herald has once again 'un-blocked' NZHerald bypass.

Not going to pay to read their 'news'. they are copying from other sources, anyway.
bk T (215)
1464811 2019-11-05 03:39:00 Don't bother with the Herald at all for a long time now, plenty of other sources for news.

Guess they have to make money somehow (online).
wainuitech (129)
1464812 2019-11-05 05:46:00 Much of the online news has become garbage click bait anyway, with 90% of their content staying up and unchanged for a week at a time (rather than the daily large update you'd expect of a new org). I find the bigger issue is learning what to ignore.
I dropped the Herald when they instigated their paywall, and haven't missed it a bit.

Stuff is little better wrt copy/paste reporting, and whomever is doing the work seems to have little appreciation of grammar as well.
Paul.Cov (425)
1464813 2019-11-07 20:21:00 Theres a free paper offer for the Herald. 5 weeks free , delivered
www.cheapies.nz

I'm on my 3rd free trial , so far. :-)
Not much in there worth reading though, takes longer to read a comic.
1101 (13337)
1464814 2019-11-07 23:10:00 Just checked today that NZHerald Bypass has fixed it after updating. bk T (215)
1464815 2019-11-08 01:44:00 What amuses me about Granny Herald is that they offer you access to what they call Premium Journalism (or something equally risible) on payment of a fee. However, their resident dog whistlers and National cheerleaders, Hosking, Hawkesby, Soper, Du Plessi-Allan, are all free - ergo even the Herald does not consider them to merit the term Premium Journalism!

It must have been a terrible dilemma for the Herald owners - do we include our primary dog whistlers in Premium Journalism and thereby mute their National Party propaganda, or do we consider them to be non-Premium and keep them in the view of the non-paying hoi polloi! My heart bleeds for them.

So officially then the main "journalists" for the Herald are not premium quality.
John H (8)
1464816 2019-11-08 09:02:00 Probably easier to find a Unicorn than a premium journalist! Beav (17610)
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