I got an e-mail today from the folks at Prime Buzz. They wanted me to take a survey to let them know how to make it better. My answer? MAKE IT FREE!I'm not a subscriber. I took the 14-day free trial (and so did each of my dogs), but there is NO way I will pay $400/year for a blog. The frustrating thing is that I like the silly blog. I enjoyed my 14-day free trial (as did my dogs). I would even pay a small monthly fee for the darned thing. I'm a news/politics junkie. The Buzz is smack. I want it.
But I don't want it bad enough to fork over the price of an airline ticket to Mexico and I'm tired of creating new e-mails and passwords for all of my pets so that I can get a new free trial every 14 days. Afterall -- the substantive stuff is typically in The Star a day or two after it appears on The Buzz and I can typically find the other stuff in my daily reading/surfing.
Still, I hate knowing that a KC-related blog is out there and I'm not reading it. I keep hoping that the experiment will end and we will get our Buzz back. Remember the good old days when the Sanders and Wheeler camps would have 142 comments about who was dirtier? What about the ridiculous gossip posts from Dee Ann Smith describing the latest whisper campaign and Ingrid Burnett's hairstyle and Beth Low's engagement ring. The demise of The Buzz has left a huge hole in my day. I actually have at least 30 extra minutes a day now that I have no idea what to do (insert helpful comment about using it to exercise or spend time with family -- blah, blah, blah).
So please, Powers That Be at The Star -- Free the Buzz! We want The Buzz. We want The Buzz. We want The Buzz . . . .
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I couldn't agree more!
Free the Buzz.
FREE THE BUZZ!! GIVE US THE BUZZ! And please, please, help that little bunny in the picture. I'm not sure what he did to get in there, but it couldn't have been that bad???
Isn't proprietarity information the name of the game in Jefferson City? What you are suggesting, Senator is very dangerous. Do you actually believe that a free flow of information would be healthy for our democracy. And (shudder) that perhaps our system is not for sale to the highest bidder. ;-)
I'm torn. I like that the Star has more political reporters than they did 5 years ago. I like those guys, I would like them to eat too. Finding a workable business model is the problem.
So what happens when our generation (and those younger) expect both everything to be free on on the internet and yet also we refuse to subscribe to the newspaper?
aren't there a couple websites out there that use advertising as a revenue source?
i would think that would make the very well done primebuzz more affordable to the masses.
Agreed Free The Buzz!
I was a bit more blunt about it all - I asked them who the hell they think they are, when Times Select is available to NY Times subscribers who only get the paper on the weekend.
And all of my cats agreed when they asked them, too. Even the one who passed on last spring. (Kinda like voting in Louisiana in the old days, innit?)
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