A while back McHenry County’s paper of record started taking its articles down after a couple of days.

While I make a practice of linking to newspaper articles I site or quote, that change in operating procedure made it almost worthless to continue doing so for the Northwest Herald.

For $2.95 one can still buy access to a past article, but, somehow, I doubt that generates much cash.

Now the Shaw paper is announcing that for pennies a week, one can receive the email edition of its paper.

Is that a commentary on the paper’s traditional mode of circulation?

How long can it be before free access to articles posted on the internet disappears?

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