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50% off All Subscriptions to The Age and SMH for 6 Months Starting from $7.50/Month

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50% off All Subscriptions to The Age and SMH for 6 Months Starting from $7.50/Month
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damoo on 15/06/2014 - 11:57 theage.myfairfax.com.au (1388 clicks)
Last edited 15/06/2014 - 12:24

yeah yeah yeah- so you can get around the 30 article limit by using private browsing… but eventually fairfax will go out of business and we'll be stuck with Murdoch being the only major game in town.
yikes.

$7.50/month is decent value I think for theage.com.au content- hopefully if their revenue picks up they won't feel as much pressure to scrape the bottom of the barrel and compete with news.com.au for click-bait content.

We get the media we deserve…. and if we aren't paying for it, we can't complain when it's terrible/corrupt/lazy/stupid.

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  • kerfuffle on 15/06/2014 - 12:17
    +3

    Also available for Sydney Morning Herald:
    https://smh.myfairfax.com.au/members/bundles?channel_key=IBo…

    Better than the 50% off three months offer since I now don't need to cancel my subscription before the third month ends!

    • damoo on 15/06/2014 - 12:50
      +4

      err, if that were the case they would have gone out of business decades ago.

      Fair to say it's more likely that they are struggling, like all newspapers around the globe, due to all their money and resources being tied up in the print world.

        • arcticmonkey on 15/06/2014 - 20:35
          +3

          Clearly a man who has become too absorbed in Murdoch and Bolt's right wing trash.

        • odysseus on 15/06/2014 - 21:01
          +3

          Let me guess, you haven't actually considered you may be biased towards the right?

    • subscriber on 16/06/2014 - 19:29
      -4

      You were always going to get negged given the typical demographic of social media butterflies. You are in fact only partly correct. The Age's left wing bias is not the problem, as there is clearly a market for this. The problem is that the ABC's left wing bias makes it a competitor to the Age, but one which does not charge. Hence the Age readership is in much more rapid decline than right wing outlets such as news ltd since the ABC provides virtually zero right wing or centre commentary.

  • calcium on 15/06/2014 - 13:22
    +16

    We need more media diversity.

    I think Syd and Melb are the only 2 capital cities where Murdoch press isnt the only presence?

    I guess sometimes, we have to put our money where our mouth is.

    Subscribed.

    • sickllama on 16/06/2014 - 07:30
      +1

      Brisbane has fairfax's brisbane times. Granted its only online - still more relevant for qlders than SMH or god forbid reading the courier mail.

    • rampantconsumer on 16/06/2014 - 11:45
      +1

      Couldn't agree more. I had their print subscription for a while, but the crappy local newsagent kept leaving it on the footpath where it'd get nicked within 10min.

      Signed up again. Their photography club is also pretty good, they have monthly photography assignments, and the benefit to them is they get a bunch more photo's they can publish instead of paying Getty.

  • Cheap Rich Guy on 15/06/2014 - 14:08
    -8

    Murdoch himself supported Rudd in his bid to get elected in 2007.

    • deal88 on 16/06/2014 - 14:19

      So you are agreeing that Murdoch (the American) has a history of meddling with Australian politics.

  • trippyfoo on 15/06/2014 - 14:37
    +7

    Agreed, $7.50 sounds more than fair to me. For quality journalism.

  • [Deactivated] on 15/06/2014 - 14:42
    +3

    IMHO it's still not that cheap.
    The tablet app appears to deliver the whole paper for free.
    This is as it should be. They've cut out the printing & delivery costs.
    They're still hitting you with ads, which should be more then enough to cover costs.

    I just gave up my Age $5.50/wk for 7 day delivery as it's mostly rubbish.
    The letters page was about the only worthwile read.
    The reporting is fairly lazy & predictable. Rather then well researched & hard hitting,
    it's mostly tabloid-style screaming headlines, cheap beat ups and my favourite, media releases passed off as journalism.
    If you're left leaning you're better off with The Guardian, Crikey or the ABC websites.

    • rawm on 15/06/2014 - 14:58
      +7

      It's a vicious cycle. Earn no income = no money to pay decent journalists to gather interesting 'quality' stories. This then translates into click-bait and advertorial content aimed at gaining income. The Age will soon morph into (if it hasn't already) another tabloid that is as close to a newspaper as Pitbull is as an music artist.

      In the meantime right click, open in new incognito window.

    • Matt88 on 15/06/2014 - 21:31
      -2

      You lost me when you used "then" for "than"

    • Look43Bs on 15/06/2014 - 21:45

      I agree… give me the internet any day!!!

  • calcium on 15/06/2014 - 15:25
    +2

    I think there was industrial action there recently (last month?) cos of forced redundancies.

    And I seem to recall, something about their photographers section being gutted.

    ie. they are in trouble and need all the help they can get.

    I would be sad if they had to shut down.

    • Amaris on 15/06/2014 - 18:26
      +5

      You have to have have some Australian content to read ON the internet!

  • Khisanth on 15/06/2014 - 19:01
    +3

    I agree with the need to maintain and pay for quality journalism so I signed up for the $12.50 weekend papers and unlimited digital access.

    At the risk of asking a stupid question… Is there an iphone app for this? I got the ipad one but can't find the iphone one anywhere.

    "THE ITEM YOU'VE REQUESTED IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THE AUSTRALIAN STORE".

    • kerfuffle on 15/06/2014 - 20:03

      Guess they just expect you to use m.smh.com.au or m.theage.com.au

  • minijumbuk on 15/06/2014 - 20:41
    -4

    True ozbargainers would know that you can just use incognito mode for free

    • damoo on 15/06/2014 - 21:06
      +21

      Apologies for burying that information way down in the first sentence of the deal.

  • sleet on 15/06/2014 - 21:42
    +1

    That's 25c a day or roughly 2-3 cups of coffee if you drink coffee.

  • MissLouise on 15/06/2014 - 23:45
    +5

    "We get the media we deserve…. and if we aren't paying for it, we can't complain when it's terrible/corrupt/lazy/stupid"

    True dat.

  • gmail92 on 16/06/2014 - 03:45
    -5

    Ctrl+Shift+N

  • Eeples on 16/06/2014 - 09:23
    -3

    They can get stuffed.

    I never received my Rebel voucher.

    • RichardRides on 16/06/2014 - 10:10
      +6

      Um, that was the Herald-Sun … Murdoch paper, not Fairfax.

      • damoo on 16/06/2014 - 15:10
        +3

        to be fair, he's correct- Fairfax didn't send him a voucher either.
        The fact that they weren't offering vouchers in the first place is just being pedantic.

    • arcticmonkey on 24/06/2014 - 19:59

      Clearly you're lacking the comprehension to know it was the Herald Scum that had the offer.

  • Look43Bs on 16/06/2014 - 14:46

    Poor Eepies..didn't get his voucher!!! - that's why it's not a good deal?

  • BargainBenno on 21/06/2014 - 23:50

    Dp you think I could get the weekend smh drlivered as part of this deal even though I live in Adelaide? If not then the age?

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