Can the Dailies Survive by Charging Online? Both the Chronicle and the papers of the Bay Area Reports Group hope to make you pay for your web reports.

You take a seat at your desk, flip open that laptop PC, and start scanning SFGate for a fast taste of Bay Area stories. Maybe you may check on Matier Ross ; they are usually good for some scuttlebutt. Or perhaps you will read Willie Brown's column, or Ray Ratto on the Raiders' apocalypse of a season. But instead, you get a dismaying small note : if you need to read this story, you will need to pay for it. Shortly , good amounts of content, which we've all so blithely treated disrespectfully, will not be free. Fine, you are saying to oneself, there's always The Oakland Tribune or the San Jose Mercury Stories or the Contra Costa Times. But you will be outta luck there sometime shortly also.

additionally, he intends to lock out the spybots of Google Reports , even banning that service from scanning his protected content and showing the announcements.

just over a year from now, you may not be in a position to read any Bay Area daily paper online for nothing. If they succeed, the peculiar affectation of history that gave us instant online gratification will come to a close. But will they succeed? While some speciality publications have managed to pull off a subscription-based model, that plan has had its share of impressive mess ups also. Newspapers have dedicated years and millions in consulting charges trying to work out a formula to monetize the web, but nobody knows if there's one. Here in the Bay Area, the stakes are little different. And both entities are contesting with the whole internet world, from local TV reports sites to Perez Hilton. If they can not make a go of it, there is an incredibly good chance that one will gobble up the other and be the last businessman - current Fed. law not withstanding. Once the state's's papers got behind this 8 ball, they faced an ungainly quandary. Industry officers asked for an exemption to the anti-trust laws, but the Obama administration recounted no. Last year marked the point at which they made a decision to leap. And a new chief at BART, and a reprieve for Oakland truckers. But some current and previous workers say it's left a bad taste in their mouths. But some current and previous workers say it's left a bad taste in their mouths. The Most Dangerous Man in America simply overcomes.