Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy
Xeni Jardin
The North County Gazette, a regional paper covering upstate New York, offers its articles online with a sort of an honor system instead of a standard paywall. OK, but instead of a straight-up honor system or “tip jar” (you read stuff, then drop a micropayment in the bucket), they are totally aggro and threatening about it.
Dig the guilt-trippy decree (in crimson comic sans, no less!) displayed next to each and every article:
