{"id":5057,"date":"2012-01-08T05:12:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2012-01-08T05:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T10:12:55","slug":"repostnewspapers-paywalls-and-core-users-clay-shirky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/08\/repostnewspapers-paywalls-and-core-users-clay-shirky\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users \u00ab Clay Shirky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The people who feel this way have always been a minority of the readership, a fact obscured by print bundles, but made painfully visible by paywalls. When a paper abandons the standard paywall strategy, it gives up on selling news as a simple transaction. Instead, it must also appeal to its readers\u2019 non-financial and non-transactional motivations: loyalty, gratitude, dedication to the mission, a sense of identification with the paper, an urge to preserve it as an institution rather than a business.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2012\/01\/newspapers-paywalls-and-core-users\/\">Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users \u00ab Clay Shirky<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people who feel this way have always been a minority of the readership, a fact obscured by print bundles, but made painfully visible by paywalls. When a paper abandons the standard paywall strategy, it gives up on selling news as a simple transaction. Instead, it must also appeal to its readers\u2019 non-financial and non-transactional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/08\/repostnewspapers-paywalls-and-core-users-clay-shirky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users \u00ab Clay Shirky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}