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Straits Times changes its policy due to decreasing traffic

Published Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by Singapore Election |

ST:

FROM Tuesday, visitors to The Straits Times' (ST) website will not have to pay to read the latest breaking news from Singapore and the world.

They can also post their views - in real time - on the reports they read.

One other major change: The site will drop its 12-year-old name, The Straits Times Interactive, or STI, and go with the cleaner 'straitstimes.com'.

Since becoming a subscription site in 2005, it has been offering only a small buffet of material for free:

1. ST's online forum letters;
2. Multimedia features, such as video news reports and podcasts;
3. A restricted selection of 20 reports from the print edition.

All other content, including breaking news and material picked up from the print edition of the newspaper itself, has been available only to subscribers in the past two years.

Explaining the move to open up more free-access content, ST editor Han Fook Kwang said: 'There's a great deal more we can do in the website to leverage on the award-winning talent in The Straits Times newsroom of writers, photographers, artists and designers. I think we've a good product and we want to make it available to more people in cyberspace, and to use the technology available on the web to make it an even better product.'

Here is the real reason ....

Straits Times' daily traffic

Source: Alexa

Keep it up people, we're winning the war on Straits Times!

26 Responses to “Straits Times changes its policy due to decreasing traffic”

Anonymous on 10:54 PM SGT

still a piece of shit, free or not.
Anonymous on 11:16 PM SGT

i concur with the first comment.. i dont need free propaganda.
Anonymous on 1:58 AM SGT

heng ar.. lucky i never pay for it.
aglassofwine on 4:43 AM SGT

tks for the heads up, this is great news!
Johnny Malkavian on 10:41 AM SGT

Eh where did my comment go?

Was wondering why there was a spike in mid 2005
Anonymous on 11:18 AM SGT

The New York Times, BBC, Telegraph, The Times, Washington Post et al, have all along been "free" and I have often wondered what's so special about The ST?????

At last these *geniuses*/propagandists at the ST have finally woken up.

Duh...

JS
Totoro on 11:20 AM SGT

Even better check out this link comparing the ST traffic to the channelnewsasia.com traffic...
Guess who overtakes who?

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/&site1=channelnewsasia.com&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=r&amp;amp;z=2&h=400&w=700&range=3y&size=Large&url=http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/
Totoro on 11:32 AM SGT

Sorry, mistake in the last post

Traffic to ST vs Traffic to CNA

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=straitstimes.asia1.com.sg&site1=channelnewsasia.com&y=r&amp;amp;z=2&h=400&w=700&range=3y&size=Large&url=http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/
scb on 11:51 AM SGT

Is it free for it to do more social engineering? It is still best to avoid it!
Anonymous on 6:31 PM SGT

Free is good ! Quality is totally another problem....

I have a different gripe. Why does ST not preserve older articles ? (ST deletes them or just cannot be accessed ?)

Suggest they buy a few 100 GB disk frm SimLim Square... to preserve news, views and trivia for the benefit of the next generation.
Anonymous on 7:49 PM SGT

Older articles may haunt people. Imagine that this is the GE year, imagine that you are able to retreive some "nice" articles of what some of our million dollars ministers said over the last five years and spread these articles like wild fire. Imagine, please. Oh, I am sure that they have terebytes and terabytes of hard disk space, for log files of IP addresses.
Anonymous on 4:32 AM SGT

I WILL continue to BOYCOTT them!
FREE or NOT...
Shitty Times is STILL Shitty Times even though they're FREE. (Nobody wants shit anyway, free or not free...)
Anonymous on 10:48 PM SGT

Singapore should free up its media and stop monopoly.

Brainwash singaporeans with pro-government propaganda is bad.

I hope the propagandists in the ST can take note.
Anonymous on 11:04 PM SGT

The SAD FACT is... they know and they are still at it!
Anonymous on 12:04 AM SGT

I don't like ST's pro-USA, pro-Israel propaganda.

Just report fairly, don't spread propaganda.

Not all people are easily fooled.
Anonymous on 3:24 AM SGT

Don't infect your mind with ST's shit. It's run by ISD agents and ramk 154th in world free press.
Anonymous on 12:25 PM SGT

Singapore's mainstream media nothing but government propaganda, no independent reporting whatsoever, accordng to SDP:

http://singaporedemocrat.org/media.html
Anonymous on 1:58 PM SGT

All we get in ST when it comes to foreign news is mostly pro-USA propaganda.

This type of article you will never find:

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Oil_in_Africa/oil_in_africa.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5837

Why be a USA mouthpiece?
Anonymous on 4:26 PM SGT

Hmmm. Do you have a direct link to the press release declaring ST's website to be free?

Strange that when I'm on the home page, every link I click on "Singapore" for example, takes me to a subscription sign up page that demands *gasp* a credit card! You can still browse headlines for free but when you click on a link, the sign up page shows up again!

Maybe this was just a PR stunt?
Anonymous on 12:30 AM SGT

Yet another load of crap from Shitty Times

Taken from their site:
"Milk prices on the rise
Prices of milk have shot up across the board, ranging from $0.10 to a steep hike of $0.55 for a can or carton.

This, according to a survey conducted by the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE).

Hitting the streets, straitstimes.com finds out if Singaporeans are willing to fork out the extra cents for their favourite milk."

DO WE HAVE A CHOICE?
Anonymous on 4:47 AM SGT

ST good to open up its propaganda materials.

Now, let's it be read by all aliens of the universe to see if our crappy and useless wold's most expensive gahmen stand scrutiny !
Anonymous on 4:54 AM SGT

ST name StraitTime.com ?
Whatever millions pay to come out such name should be fired and send to exile because such name doesn't do justice to our wonderful and so-called credible local Newspaper !

Use my suggested name and I'm sure it will become brand icon in the whole damn galaxy. And I'm don't charge millions like what I charge my client. I'm give it free due to my patriotism and giving back society what gahmen has given us ! Indeed I am patriot by nature. Gahmen should be proud of me !

So what's the name to use ?
Simply called it

WasteTime.com

I'm sure All Singaporean will love this new site name and vote it up !
Don't you ?

If you do not know how to write propaganda material or bullshit, please use wastetime.com as inspiration ! wastetime.com doesn't land up in 154th position for nothing !
Anonymous on 3:15 PM SGT

No analysis of local affairs at all ST.

Only spread pro-government propaganda.

World affairs get ang moh to write their pro-USA, pro-Israel bullshit.

This type of media, who wants?

Nothing but junk.
Anonymous on 3:37 PM SGT

I can understand if Singapore mainstream media spreads pro-government propaganda.

This is nothing new.

But when it spread pro-USA and pro-Israel propaganda, something is wrong.
Anonymous on 11:46 AM SGT

singapore needs to stay at american side all the time... without america (the bigger dog), malaysia will eat singapore up whole .period
lee hsien tau on 1:31 PM SGT

If you believe that Christopher Lee's luck turned for the worse when he changed his name, apparently on ill-advice by a feng shui geomancer, as reported in The New Paper, then it must really be pouring when it rains, because of what just happened in Los Angeles.

Paris Hilton was originally sentenced to 45 days in the slammer (cut to 23 days for good behaviour) by Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer for driving with a license suspended after a drink-driving arrest. The judge specifically spelt out during sentencing that she was not allowed to serve house detention. She checked into LA County Lynwood lock-up to serve out her incarceration in what was reportedly to be a private cell, but was sent home after 5 days to finish her original 45 day sentence under an 'electronic monitoring ankle bracelet' house arrest on the executive countermanding orders of LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, because "she was on the brink of a nervous breakdown".

For a country that specifically kept executive, legislature and judicial powers separate and independent, this was surprising development. But what caused Paris Hilton to be dragged screaming back to jail wasn't due to good governance. It wasn't due to a crusading, politicized press either. Paris Hilton wasn't political material. She was a rich party girl who was apt at making a spectacle of herself, and therefore much fancied by the paparazzi for tabloid material. The scene outside Paris Hilton's house reached madcap proportions in the hours after her release into house detention. Even the cup-cake delivery man was much photographed and interviewed.

So don't you believe that a free press will hold Sheriff Baca in contempt of court? It is freedom of expression, and public outrage of favoritism brought about by the news made available by the press that caused Paris Hilton to do the time for her crime, a concept a Straits Times 'journalist' will never understand.

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