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    <author><![CDATA[yellowdogmichael]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I will not pay for it. I will get my news elsewhere.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:35:42 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[chainsaw]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I live in Mexico, read the CA daily. Wonder how many people like me they will keep.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 13:45:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[It'll be a good move from the standpoint of getting rid of the folks who post their vitriol in the comment section. Now they'll have to pay to post their nonsense or not post at all.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 13:31:37 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[M_Awesomeberg]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'm assuming the Flyer is popping champagne corks over this development. <br>
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The elimination of free content from the CA will/should drive traffic to the Flyer's web site, and presumably to its "dead tree" edition as well.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 11:14:43 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[cdel]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This is horrible news for the Flyer. All the CA trolls will have to post their bile somewhere.<br>
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 10:52:38 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Bruce,<br>
Unless the CA  is cutting you a special deal, your revised cipherin' is still way off. Like MichaelC, I'm paying approximately $248 a year for daily home delivery.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 10:32:45 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[kference]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I understand the need to charge money, but $10/month?! The New York Times is $15/month.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 09:57:54 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[tomguleff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I get 100% of my news from The Memphis Flyer.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 09:46:20 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Packrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["Or — and here's my theory — they're just trying anything they can to run off their idiot commentors."<br>
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You're kidding--those idiot commenters give them more hits on their site. I agree with auto, I'll take CHG any day.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 08:41:23 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[MemphisFunk]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This comes right out of the Memphis football seat licenses playbook.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 08:20:49 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[BruceVanWyngarden]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[My cipherin', as commentor MichaelC points out, is way off. My subscription cost is $156 a year.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:55:18 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[sbanbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Bright side of life: I'll be posting over here more often ;-)<br>
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:52:46 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[M_Awesomeberg]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I seriously doubt there are too many small (or even medium)-market dailies that have gone to paywalls for their online content. The NYT and WSJ are one thing; the CA is totally another.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 23:19:42 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[MichaelC]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[OK, sorry, I guess you must mean a Sunday-only subscription (I don't know the price), and maybe it isn't so ridiculous - as a way to "cheat" the price of online. Or maybe they'll fix that before they go live.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 21:19:00 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Neondragon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This puts the CA about a month behind other papers that have already gone pay-to-play.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 21:05:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[You hit the nail on the head Auto, if the CA would put forth a quality product, people would buy it, to include the online version. <br>
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You're right about the trolls too.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:24:41 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[MichaelC]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Excuse ME??? Where do you get this $68/year paper subscription?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:16:26 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[fancycwabs]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If they provide content worth paying for, then they're set. Wait--I think I may have spotted a flaw in their plan.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:15:17 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[autoegocrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As someone who finds themselves firmly in the "screw it" category -- I've never been impressed enough with the CA to pay for it -- I would reconsider my position if it means that some of the idiots who dominate the comments on articles were gone. I would pay money to never have to see some of those people again.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:52:07 -0500</pubDate>
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