Grassroots voluntary financial support is building for Yubanet as The Union erects its “pay wall.”
“Today we add Yubanet to our list of news and entertainment organizations we financially support,” Peter Van Zant wrote on his Facebook page. “Yubanet joins KVMR, KVIE, and the Sac Bee on our list. The information to subscribe is on the Yubanet website.”
The link Peter was referring to is here. The suggested voluntary contributions to Yubanet begin at $5 monthly — less than half what The Union wants to charge for its mandatory “pay wall.”
“YubaNet brings you daily news, cartoons, a free community calendar, weather and emergency information,” the website reads “We’re proud to serve this community, but frankly, we could use some help. Our content is always free and available to everyone. If you appreciate what we do, please consider supporting us. Thank you!”
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I believe YubaNet is a much superior “News” site to the Union. The Union is more in line with the traditional newspaper. Both have their role in our community but the paywall confirms what Jeff Pelline is always saying about the changing of media and how it is delivered to its consumers.
I just made a one time donation. This was my first, but I don’t plan on it being my last.
I really like Yubanet and ncvoices…and I don’t even live in the neighborhood. I’ve been by the Union before they erected the journalistic equivelent of East Germany over there and Yubanet is vastly superior. I’ll be cobbling up some dinero to send. They’ve got it goin on over there…free & free-dom. Kate
An entirely different and friendlier approach to reader contributions, when compared to The Union, can be found in this Redding newspaper:
http://www.redding.com/news/opinion/