Crikey publish a number of non-paywalled articles each day, and all the paywalled articles are openly published after two weeks. Remarkably similar publishing and business model to a publication I have supported as a subscriber for years now: LWN.

(In this case, you’d read about US politics on Crikey because it’s Guy Rundle’s analysis from an Australian perspective. Also, it’s Guy Fucking Rundle.)

If Crikey can not make enough money by putting advertising on their articles then it can’t be that great a read. Ofcourse any advertiser would be heading straight for The Punch since their articles can be read by the whole fucking Internet. I canceled all my msm subscriptions years ago. That gig is dead, dead, dead.

Only journos would try and entice you to subscribe by getting you drunk on $86 worth of unknown wine. Nothing attracts a journo like a trough I guess so they probably assume the rest of us are the same. Muslims must be signing up by the hajj load for that deal. Throw in a pack of ciggies as well? How about a couple of cartons of beer for the yobbos?