Thanks for linking to a pay-firewall js insider story. when are newspapers going to figure out that if they don’t open up their content, people will go elsewhere. nytimes just figured it out.
Homme said in October 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pmHomme,
Sorry about that - I usually give a warning about that sort of thing. Re: your newspaper point.
I could not agree more in general, however, when you do something as well as the JS does for a niche market with a readership as rabid as Packer fans, you can get away with it. I mean, it’s only something like $30 for the year. Well worth it for geeks like me 
But like I said, overall, I agree, esp when it comes to the Paper of Record
packeraaron said in October 2nd, 2007 at 4:22 pm[...] Even with the retirement of Cliff Cristal, and despite it’s long distance from the city of the team it covers, this Milwaukee outfit brings the goods. With Cristal gone, Bob McGinn is now the Grand Pooh-bah beat guy, and there is simply no one better in the country. Does he make mistakes? Of course. (Who could forget his massive op-ed on why the Packers should give up a first round pick for Drew Henson, which, by the way, has mysteriously disappeared from the internet ) But the man is still one of the the two or three best beat guys in the nation. (And having said that, we officially apologize for this post) [...]
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