On Wed, 3 Jan, 2018, 11:06 Stephen Dias, <steve.dia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Readers of Herald > > The news is spread like fire throughout the state of Goa in this NEW Year > 2018 due to changes have taken place for those who are used to go online > and Herald is the paper which Goans now cannot read online from today > onwards unless the payment is made as per their terms and conditions for > payment procedure. > This was shocking news for all of us. Most of us are used to get up in the > early morning, even at 3 AM or 4 AM onwards and go to the computer to read > the news but surprisingly Herald cannot be accessed if payment is not made > in advance. Those Goans who are settled abroad must have also got the > shocking news or jerk and especially those staying in Gulf, Canada, UK, > Australia, US and other parts of the world will not get the VOICE OF GOA > instantly if payment is not made, and who knows slowly other newspapers > will follow the same system. This will give another jerk for Goans if all > other newspapers follow the same tactics. > Herald said this amount is just a peanut and it cost less than a cup of > tea. Fine, I agree but how many people go for tea in restaurants/cafe's as > they most of them prefer to have tea at home in the morning, but the > newspapers are a usual style for Goans even before brushing teeth to see or > read the paper online.The cost of newspapers in Goa is only Rs 5/- for > Herald, Navhind Times, and others are still less than that. I am not > surprised that this cost also will increase for all the newspapers in days > to come. > New Year started with a bang on Herald to read this paper on LINE which is > so bad? > Will the owner of Herald take it back? All the newspapers get > advertisement enough and thus make their expenses well calculated. This way > Voice of Goa will come down and people may not know what is happening in > Goa until they buy Herald paper through their agents or stalls etc. > Therefore the speed of spreading news fast will be curtailed and hence > people will get used to staying home with no news till lunch break thus NEW > YEAR we can say gave us a set back for those who are accustomed to reading > Herald early in the morning on LINE. > What about writers? why do they not get their pocket money once they > write some articles or letters to the Editor? They too should be given some > benefit since they waste their time and petrol cost for their > bikes/vehicles, photography etc to get the news promptly to the newspapers > and none of the papers so far thought of them except for their usual > columnists who are well satisfied and almost same writers is been > benefitted and not others. Will that trend of payment will start for these > writers? Let all get their benefit of some pocket money including the > owners of newspapers. > > Stephen Dias > Dona Paula > Dat: 3th Jan 2018 > mob: 9422443110 > > > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:23:33 +0530 > From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> > To: Goanet <goa...@goanet.org> > Subject: [Goanet] Herald's epaper to go 'paid' > Message-ID: > < > camcr53k2ore_binx05dsqbujmkq9uo+zibojebnidjspofv...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Herald, the Goa-based newspaper, has announced that its online epaper will > go paid from January 3, 2018. > > It's announcement in its newspaper today showed up on its front page, and > was headlined: "Nominal monthly subscription for Herald's epaper from Jan > 3. At Rs 4.30 per day, Herald requests its family of readers to support its > paper's digital evolution." > > After saying that the paper was being read "in the eastern hemisphere... > (and) in the extreme West of the world" the paper this would help it to > "enhance and maintain the quality of the epaper and at the same time invest > in making the website cutting edge (sic) coupled with additional news > gathering efforts, we need to imbibe the best technology and news gathering > resources." > > FN >