{"id":1017,"date":"2014-04-01T07:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2014-04-01T07:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:43:52","slug":"chattanooga-bystander-implements-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2014\/04\/01\/chattanooga-bystander-implements-paywall\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga Bystander implements paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1015\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/paywall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1015\" alt=\"Chattanooga Bystander paywall pop-up window\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/paywall-300x147.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/paywall-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/paywall-276x135.png 276w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/paywall.png 889w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chattanooga Bystander paywall pop-up window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After being purchased by<i> The Chattanooga Times Free Press<\/i>, it was announced by TFP managing editor Jordan Krampton that <i>The Chattanooga Bystander <\/i>would implement a paywall in order for readers to access its award-winning articles online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We asked the publishers of <i>The Chattanooga Bystander<\/i> for their financial records,&#8221; said Krampton. &#8220;They just handed us an Applebee&#8217;s kids menu with mustard stains and a few numbers scribbled on it in crayon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no idea how these people are making any money,&#8221; said Krampton. &#8220;Their content was free, and they had no advertising. This is America, gosh darn it. If you do something that doesn&#8217;t make any money, that&#8217;s just Un-American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The paywall will require readers of <i>The Chattanooga Bystander<\/i> to purchase an annual subscription to access its content or simply get around the paywall by using <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.www.chattanoogabystander.com%2F&amp;anno=2&amp;sandbox=1\">Google&#8217;s Translate<\/a> feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being purchased by The Chattanooga Times Free Press, it was announced by TFP managing editor Jordan Krampton that The Chattanooga Bystander would implement a paywall in order for readers to access its award-winning articles online. &#8220;We asked the publishers of The Chattanooga Bystander for their financial records,&#8221; said Krampton. &#8220;They just handed us an Applebee&#8217;s kids menu with mustard stains and a few numbers scribbled on it in crayon.&#8221; &#8220;We have no idea how these people are making any money,&#8221; said Krampton. &#8220;Their content was free, and they had no advertising. This is America, gosh darn it. If you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}