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I'm tempted to insult those who read the CSBJ Daily or Web site but don't pay for it, I'm tempted to label them with the disparaging term "freeloader."
But if they deserve to be disparaged, what about me?
Yes, they've been reading the CSBJ for free for years, but the only reason they can do it is that I've been giving it away.
If they really are freeloaders, what does that make me?
Stupid, perhaps? But I'm wising up, along with the rest of the newspaper industry.
I'd like to think that newspaper people are pretty smart.
I'd like to think that newspaper reporting is essential to a thriving community, and like to think that it is as important today as it was when our nation's forefathers decided to protect it under the Bill of Rights a couple hundred years ago.
So, why give away good journalism away for free?
Quality journalism comes at a cost. It's expensive to produce a newspaper, reporting is time intensive, the creative talent...