At a gathering of Nevada County Online in late June, The Union told attendees it would launch its new Website around mid-August. (The presentation was videotaped). But now that’s delayed until “at the beginning of September,” according to The Union’s comments to a reader last week on Facebook.
“Comments should return after the new site is in place,” The Union, owned by Swift Commmunications out of Nevada, added. “It is difficult to give an exact date, or that the comments feature is even certain, but for now that is the plan. (TownTalk) didn’t require a subscription. The new commenting system will.”
Facebook commentary is free — just like on Yubanet.com, KVMR.com, KNCO.com and blogs. The Roseburg News-Review, Swift’s only other print “broadsheet” besides The Union and the new home of The Union’s ex-pubisher, not only has a “paywall” it has no mobile app either.
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The Tide will soon be coming in, for The Union.
You mean we are now going to have to pay to read the nasty anonymous comments?! The kind of comments that tear this community apart? Really Swift Communications. Do you really have to extort people in order to sell your paper?